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BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests

Posted by timothy on from the government-you-deserve dept.

1729 writes "Yesterday, in an effort to disrupt rumored protests at Bay Area Rapid Transit stations, BART officials disabled cell phone and internet access within most of the BART system by shutting down the antennas that enable reception in the underground stations."

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  1. Solidarity by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When Poland's workers organized to protest the Communist government, one of the government's countermeasures was to disable the phone system.

    My mother remarked at the time how unimaginable it was to live in a place where the phones could stop working because the government wanted them to.

  2. I thought Internet access was a human right? by WaffleMonster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OMFG for months we've been hearing western nations cry bloody murder over Middle eastern government oppresive measures against their own telecom infustructures...

    This colminated with the fucking UN declaring Internet access to be a human right.

    Now we have ourselves some relatively minor incidents of civil unrest and the very same (mostly european) countries are doing the very same shit they were previously so adamantly against.

    I hope BART gets sued to hell.