British Prime Minister David Cameron has said today the Government is considering disrupting online social networking during civil unrest. According to Reuters similar moves are often condemned when done by other countries.

During the four days of civil unrest police and politicians said those involved in the troubles, often used such networks to organize where and when to start. Cameron told the British parliament today that they “are working with police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality”.

Most of the trouble makers used BBM over Facebook and Twitter because its messages are encrypted and private. Militant attacks in India are thought to have been organized by people using BBM in the past. A couple of days ago RIM said it cooperates with law enforcement and regulatory authorities, but stopped short of saying whether it would hand over chat logs or user details to the police investigating the riots.

There have already been some arrests in the country from people using the likes of Facebook to incite violence. As people watched the events unfold on TV, they would have noticed how well organized the people responsible were. But social networking did have some good to play in the recent troubles, with many people taking to Twitter to organize cleanups of the affected areas of the looting.

What do you think should the British Government block social networking sites if there is any more trouble?

The team over at The Next Web originally spotted the listing from Craigslist in London, which has since been pulled from the website making it even more suspicious. The advert shows an image that you can see above of a full case of 16GB iPhone 4s. Altogether there are forty of the handsets which are all sealed in their boxes, and have not been activated.

They are priced at £320 each but the seller said he would offer a discount for people who bought three or more. Over the last couple of days there have been a lot of TV footage showing yobs breaking into mobile phone stores, and running out with their arms full of goods.

It is highly likely that there will be many listings popping up on other sites such as eBay, or goods sold via the small ads in the local press. We told you yesterday about the fire at Sony’s distribution center in Enfield London. It has since emerged that a vast amount of independent record labels have lost huge amounts of stock in the blaze.

The Guardian is reporting labels such as Domino as well as film production companies have been hit hard by the fire. Stock from the site is distributed by the Pias Group and is the country’s largest independent sales, marketing and distribution company.

Have you spotted any suspicious looking listings with expensive items for sale?