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After Cell-Phone Switch-Off, Anonymous Promises BART Protest

Posted by timothy on from the foolproof-plan dept.

According to the San Francisco Appeal, the cellphone service shut-down that the BART system imposed Thursday (by disabling transponders which allow cellphone communications in the underground portion of the system), besides drawing rebukes from various civil liberties groups, has generated plans for a protest Monday organized by Anonymous.

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  1. Re:Oh, they can fuck right off. by FxChiP · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm disproving myself:

    1.) Cell phone service was not disrupted directly following the shooting. (Which would have been worse!)
    2.) The shooting I'm thinking of is Oscar Grant III, which was two years ago and probably resolved by this point.

    I apologize, I flew off without actually knowing what the hell was going on, instead extrapolating from the admittedly limited information and summaries I was seeing on Twitter and taking in the wrong order and the wrong way. I was totally desynched from the truth. My fault.

  2. Re:Oh, they can fuck right off. by sjames · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not really. BART is NOT a private corporation. Those repeaters are NOT private property. It was/is financed through sales taxes levied by the local government.

    They have no more right to shut down cell service to block free speech than the post office would to refuse to deliver flyers mailed by a protest group.

    They DO have a right to insist that any protest be carried out in an orderly manner and that it not endanger the safety of others.

    They sure like the benefits (like tax funding) they get from being a quasi-government body (www.bart.gov), so they will just have to deal with the downside.