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The Director of Public Prosecutions asks whether Facebook and Twitter should take more responsibility for monitoring their networks for abuse and harassment in order to reduce the number of cases coming before the courts .

On Monday, a prison sentence of 12 weeks gave Matthew Woods, a teenager who was "bad joke" on Facebook about Jones missing five years in April. On Tuesday, a man was sentenced to death for writing messages Dewsbury abuse by British soldiers.

Keir Starmer, who this week access to lawyers, journalists and police in a series of seminars on the subject, if you're willing to do media companies need to improve their social position moderation a time when the police are concerned about the volume of offensive messages and tweets can be called to investigate.

panels Starmer said participants often returned to the subject, and establish guidelines amid almost daily arrests, lawsuits and controversy. However, there is no immediate consensus on what greater self-regulation of social media might look like.

Tuesday Azhar, Ahmed, 20, from Dewsbury, was sentenced to 240 hours of community service for a comment on Facebook saying that "all men must die and go to hell" after death six British soldiers. A day earlier, Matthew Woods, 19, from Chorley, was jailed for 12 weeks for posting jokes on his Facebook page.

The increasing number of arrests - often under Article 127 of the expansive communications Act 2003, which makes it a crime to send or post "patently offensive" material online - raises police concerned to maintain the pressure on the bar milking Starmer high.

Last month, the CPS decided not to take action against Daniel Thomas, a football player semi-professional homophobic messages posted on Twitter related to Olympic diver Tom Daley, as he quickly presented excuses, deleted the message, and said he had no intention of it being retweeted as widely as it was.

Section 127 Meanwhile, police are concerned about the time spent in the examination of cases and will only be possible to investigate a small number of cases where emotions are raw - like the arrest Last month the Liverpool man had set up a "Give Cregan is a hero" page, referring to suspect now charged with the murder of two policemen and two civilians Greater Manchester.

Andy Trotter, who speaks on behalf of the Association of Chiefs of Police in the media business, said: "Many of the negative comments are made every day on social networks and guidance will help Police to focus on more serious things. "

Police like Facebook and Twitter to act quickly to remove offensive comments are necessary to avoid arrest and see if we can explore ways to block certain people from using their networks.

Twitter declined to comment on individual cases and work directly Starmer. The social network has a policy of freedom of expression requires that disputes do not interfere or restrict what he described as "controversial content" advising people to block users that people disagree. But Twitter has recently changed its rules to make "direct attacks and repeated on an individual of a possible breach" of its terms of service.

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