BART joins Mubarack fan club

[james_davis_nicoll]

Nicked from mme_hardy

This week, EFF has seen censorship stories move closer and closer to home — first Iran, then the UK, and now San Francisco, an early locus of the modern free speech movement. Operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) shut down cell phone service to four stations in downtown San Francisco yesterday in response to a planned protest. Last week, protesters disrupted BART service in response to the fatal shooting of Charles Blair Hill by BART police on July 3rd. Thursday’s protest failed to materialize, possibly because the disruption of cell phone service made organization and coordination difficult.

Comments

[casaubon.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the protest be organised *before* the protesters got to the station?

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Shutting off cell service is a crappy thing to do. Surely cell service was available above ground though, right? This BART service is specifically for the underground areas, if I'm reading the articles correctly.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

BART has underground repeaters in all the stations, provided and maintained by the cellphone companies, but with a mandatory kill switch owned by BART.

[jsburbidge.livejournal.com]

The TTC is ahead of the curve. It has cell phone service shut down 100% of the time.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

What's a "cell phone"?

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I was wondering where Mubarak fled to.