riots

Singapore is an extremely thoroughly policed country, and riots are just not an acceptable excuse for draconian policy.

And the government proposed taking down twitter and BBM during the London riots a few years ago.

Absolutely serious question - are riots considered part of political life in the same way protests are?

It is also something with a historical precedent (look into how they responded to the BBM situation after the London riots).

We got a hint of this during the London riots of a few years ago.

Just like that other Pando article on Uber (the title mentions riot, whereas the article has nothing to do with riots).

I was browsing the front page of their site after I looked up coverage of the riots.

The government is 100% wrong to side with taxis from day one and punish Uber for the taxi drivers riots, rewarding people who harassed drivers and their customers, destroyed cars and burned streets.

In particular, inflation (eating away at those savings) sometimes leads to riots, and their monetary policy has been very extreme for many many years.

I doubt it is a french thing either: how many riots end up involving fire (London the other year for instance).

You may think free political speech is important, but it can cost a lot of lives if it leads to a civil war or widespread riots.

Part of that would depend on how many people in military/police roles saw the unrest as riots/protests to be squashed versus a revolution to be joined.

If they are politically motivated, what sets at least these riots apart from terrorism, defined in Oxford Dictionaries as "use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims"?

Though "it only applies for UberPop", please bear in mind that during these riots, all type of transporters, or even just cars that rioters identified with transports cars (any black vans or black sedan cars) were attacked.

To give another parable: According to Wikipedia, the Weatherman later known as "..the Weather Underground Organization, was an American militant organization that carried out a series of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots from 1969 through the 1970s." They committed acts of violence in the name of doing what was right for America.

Riots involving thousands of people often happen over sports, yet there's no call for legislation around that.