http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57341 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 08:18:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57341#post-166267 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:32:11 +0000 button 166267@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent 5 stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57341#post-166244 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:26:12 +0000 The All New Jeni B 166244@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I can't wait for this to make it to FB so I can share it.</p> <p>Stars for a fab idea. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57341#post-166242 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:25:17 +0000 Squudge 166242@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I thought it was going to turn into a spoof about satire writers-rooms, and that the kids would be mercilessly driven until they could perfectly emulate the 'flounce' manoevre.</p> <p>Works for me anyway - stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57341#post-166216 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:15:32 +0000 Perks 166216@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant Carter. 5 stars from me </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57341#post-166190 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:42:39 +0000 FlashArry 166190@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As if being a child in Plymouth wasn't bad enough.</p> <p>Nice 'un, Carter - have some stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=57341#post-166188 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:11:27 +0000 Carter 166188@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There were tears of joy in a quiet street in Plymouth yesterday when seventeen children were freed from an internet forward sweatshop. Inside rescuers found banks of computers that the children had been forced to sit in front of for up to eighteen hours a day creating disease-based posts for people to endlessly forward to each other on Facebook. </p> <p>This the latest of a series of raids that have taken place at addresses all over the country in recent weeks as part of Operation No Twee a massive police operation that has so far seen twenty arrested and over sixty children rescued. </p> <p>‘The internet and Facebook in particular has in recent months been swamped with twee internet forwards claiming to raise awareness about certain medical issues and urging people to share the forwards with everyone on their friends list,’ said Detective Chief Inspector Dave Tsui spokesman for Operation No Twee. ‘People get guilt tripped in to clicking on share without ever thinking about where these things are coming from. We advise members of the public to be on the look out for phrases such as “ninety-nine out of a hundred people will ignore this, will you post it just for an hour and make a difference” and not to share posts of that nature for the sake of the children who have been denied their liberty to create them and to avoid having your friends think you’re being both smug and boring.’</p> <p>The scene in the sweatshop exposes the human cost of internet forwards as screens show unfinished forwards each containing images of flickering candles or rainbows or clear skies and the words hope and awareness. Most tellingly of all at one end of the room lies a stack of filthy and well-thumbed medical dictionaries that children as young as six were made to search through for hours at a time in order to find more mental and physical diseases to create forwards about.</p> <p>‘The internet certainly has it’s dark side,’ said DCI Tsui. ‘But it is one that can be brought to the law. Once we’ve rescued the children we will be swapping our operational focus to the elderly and tracking down the bastards who keep posting pictures of C90s and pencils, or insisting a Hula Hoop was more fun than a PlayStation 4.' </p>