Anonymous hits BART for blocking cell serviceGMANews.TV - 13 Aug, 2011Hacktivist group Anonymous on Saturday (Manila time) called for "attacks" on San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) for blocking cell phone service in some of its areas to thwart civil disturbances organized through mobile devices. ... |
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San Francisco Subway's Decision to Halt Cell Phone Service Fuels CriticismPCWorld - Christina DesMarais - 13 Aug, 2011Free speech advocates are crying foul over the San Francisco subway's decision to shut off cell phone service in its downtown stations to prevent a protest. The recent action drew comparisons to when ... |
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BART's Interference In Subway Protests, A Step In The Wrong Direction For ...Washington Post - 13 Aug, 2011By TechCrunch.com, As many may be aware by now, Bay Area Rapid Transit, also known fondly as BART and San Francisco's version of a municipal subway system, has been on the receiving end of quite a bit of criticism over the last 24 hours. ... |
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BART admits halting cell service to stop protestsSan Francisco Chronicle - Michael Cabanatuan, James Temple - 13 Aug, 2011BART police officers are out in force Thursday to prevent any disruptions from a protest sponsored by "No Justice, No BART" group. The protest did not materialize during the evening commute. BART's shut-off of subterranean cell phone service in its ... |
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BART Cell Phone Interruption: FCC Past Shows Act Was Not LegalSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 13 Aug, 2011Yesterday's action where the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area Rapid System took the step of interrupting or blocking cell phone service has increased from the first blog post on this, the one in this space, charging that BART's act was not legal, ... |
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BART overreached when it blocked cell phone useSan Francisco Chronicle - Michael Macor - 13 Aug, 2011BART police are out in force at Civic Center Station Thursday to thwart a protest by the group No Justice, No BART. What we said: "Controlling social media goes too far in Britain or any other nation." - Editorial, Aug. 12, 2011 What happened: BART ... |
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BART explains cell phone disruption; ACLU pans actionSan Jose Mercury News - Rick Hurd - 13 Aug, 2011BART on Friday released a statement explaining its actions after cellphone reception in four downtown San Francisco stations was interrupted Thursday in a move to disrupt a planned demonstration, a decision denounced by civil libertarians. ... |
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This Day in Tech: BART shuts down cell service to stop protestsCNET - Boonsri Dickinson - 13 Aug, 2011Too busy to keep up with the tech news? Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET for Friday, August 12. Flyer for Anonymous' anti-BART campaign, following cell service suspension. It references former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, ... |
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Bay Area Officials Cut Cell Coverage to Thwart ProtestorsNew York Times (blog) - David Streitfeld - 13 Aug, 2011When the Mubarak government did that to Egypt's Internet service last winter, it was met with outrage and underscored that the regime's days were numbered. When the San Francisco rapid transit system killed its underground cellphone ... |
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Officials interrupt phone service to stall protestForbes - 13 Aug, 2011AP , 08.12.11, 08:26 PM EDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Transit officials in San Francisco say cell phone reception in four downtown stations was interrupted in a move to disrupt a planned demonstration. Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, ... |
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Cellphones blocked in SF to hinder transit protestThe Associated Press - 13 Aug, 2011SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â€" Transit officials said Friday that they blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting. Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, ... |
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San Francisco subway shuts off cell service to combat protest: Civil rights ...ZDNet (blog) - Zack Whittaker - 13 Aug, 2011Summary: Part of San Francisco's subway system's cell and wireless service was cut off amid a rising protest. Civil rights and liberties groups are furious; the FCC is 'concerned'. ... |
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Bay Area Transit Police Cut Mobile Service to Thwart ProtestPCWorld - Robert McMillan - 13 Aug, 2011The agency that runs the commuter trains that rumble beneath San Francisco each day hit the panic button Thursday night, cutting off mobile-phone service to hundreds of thousands of commuters in an effort to thwart a ... |
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BART Cell Phone Blocking Action Looks Illegal - An UpdateSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 13 Aug, 2011Here's an update on the BART cell phone blocking action. BART does not consider the action illegal, rather they claim the action, according to CNET, was "within their legal rights." This blogger called BART media relations, but has not received a ... |
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Legal questions swirl around BART's cellular interruptionSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 13 Aug, 2011The news that BART interrupted cell phone service at several stations last night in response to planned protests sparked a firestorm of criticism online. This afternoon, I briefly spoke to Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic ... |
Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protestRegister - 13 Aug, 2011In response to a threatened protest in its subway system, San Francisco authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service in the underground stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known locally as BART. "A civil disturbance during ... |
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BART admits interrupting cellphone service during protestLos Angeles Times - 13 Aug, 2011The Bay Area Rapid Transit District acknowledged Friday that it interrupted cellphone service at some stations earlier this week when activists threatened a civil disturbance. BART said it took the action out of concern for the safety of subway users. ... |
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US railway blocks phones to quash protestAljazeera.net - 13 Aug, 2011California rail transit company asks mobile providers to cut service to hamper protesters angry over police shooting. A rail transit provider in the United States has disabled mobile phone services to prevent a planned protest on Thursday, ... |
SF subway muzzles cell service during protestCNET - Elinor Mills - 13 Aug, 2011The operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway system temporarily shut down cell service last night in four downtown San Francisco stations to interfere with a protest over a shooting by a BART police officer, a spokesman for the system said today. ... |
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To defuse 'flash' protest, BART cuts riders' cell service. Is that legal?Christian Science Monitor - Patrik Jonsson - 13 Aug, 2011To forestall a planned protest, Bay Area Rapid Transit turned off cellphone service, angering passengers and raising questions about First Amendment rights in an age of social media protests. A man climbs on top of a commuter train during a protest at ... |
BART Cell Phone Block Action - Irate Reader Defends BARTSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 13 Aug, 2011Obviously there are some people who don't like it when this blogger questions institutions like The Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART). Take someone who goes by the name "Tiny Tiger." (Who the heck would make a Yahoo! email address calling themselves ... |
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BART Cell Phone - Protest San Francisco Block National NewsSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 13 Aug, 2011The BART action to block cell phones (one that's not legal, by the way) as part of a plan to thwart a protest at San Francisco Civic Center Station became national news today. I know this, because CNN just aired a news segment that came on here in ... |
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Good Morning Mission! 8.12.11San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - Aug 12, 2011I took the picture above a little over a year ago, when the last of the Dia de los Muertos skeletons were being sandblasted into the new sidewalks along Valencia. Remember those new sidewalks, after all those months of construction hell? ... |
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BART on high alert, but no protests yetSan Francisco Chronicle - Demian Bulwa - Aug 12, 2011BART police officers were out in force to prevent any disruptions from a BART protest group. The protest was to be in response to the officer-involved shooting July 3 at Civic Center Station in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO -- BART officials warned ... |
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BART warns of possible protest over fatal SF transit shootingSan Jose Mercury News - Aug 11, 2011AP OAKLAND - Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are warning riders about a second protest condemning a man's fatal shooting by transit officers. BART is alerting passengers on its Web site that protesters may disrupt service as early as Thursday in ... |
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San Francisco's BART Subway Defends Protest-Stifling Cell Phone ShutdownAll Things Digital - Peter Kafka - 13 Aug, 2011Authorities said they shut down cell phone service on parts of San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit on Thursday night to stifle a planned protest on the subway system. A BART statement defended the move “as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of ... |
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San Francisco transport officials block phone signals to hinder protestthejournal.ie - 13 Aug, 2011MOBILE PHONE RECEPTION was blocked in San Francisco train stations for three hours on Thursday, as officials attempted to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting. The move was made after BART learned that protesters planned to use mobile ... |
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BART in San Francisco Cuts Cell Service to Avoid ProtestAdweek - 13 Aug, 2011The past year has been monumental in showing the power of social media and cell phones as mobilization tools. From Facebook's central role in the Arab Spring, to the more recent use of BBM and Twitter in the London riots, it is clear that logging in ... |
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US Cell Phone Service Provider Shuts Down Services to Disrupt Potential ProtestZeropaid - Drew Wilson - 13 Aug, 2011There's some disturbing news coming out of the United States. BART, a San Francisco cell phone service provider that provides cellphone services for subways, shut down all services after rumors circulated that a protest might occur. ... |
US Railway Cuts Cell Phone Contacts to Prevent Planned ProtestFars News Agency - 13 Aug, 2011The move has attracted criticism and is compared with crackdowns on dissent in the Middle-East and Britain. Demonstrators in northern California's Bay Area had planned a protest to condemn the shooting death of Charles Hill, who was killed on July 3 ... |
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