BART backs off tactic of cutting cellphone service to thwart protests

Release Date 16 Aug, 2011 in Christian Science Monitor

 
   
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BART backs off tactic of cutting cellphone service to thwart protests

Christian Science Monitor - Patrik Jonsson - 16 Aug, 2011
After taking heat from the ACLU and being hacked by Anonymous for shutting down cellphone service to four stations last week, the Bay Area's BART kept cell service on during Monday protests. BART police officers push back a protester at the Civic ...

BART Protests: San Francisco Transit Cuts Cellphone Service to Thwart ...

ABC News - Ned Potter - 16 Aug, 2011
A man is pulled off a commuter train at the Civic Center BART station in San Francisco after climbing on top of it during a protest against the July 3 shooting by transit police of Charles Blair Hill, in this July 11, ...

Egyptian Activists See Hypocrisy In BART Shutdown, London Riots

Huffington Post - 16 Aug, 2011
When authorities from Bay Area Rapid Transit decided, last week, to cut off cell phone service in their stations in order to prevent a protest against transportation police abuses, it drew the notice of more than just San Francisco radicals and ...

150 Protesters Create Havoc for BART Commuters

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - Nilanjan Nag, Helene Goupil - 16 Aug, 2011
Some 150 protesters stranded hundreds more commuters Monday evening as BART partially closed stations at Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero from 5:15 pm to somewhere near 8 pm, according to our reporters on the ground. ...

Good Morning Mission! 8.16.11

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 16 Aug, 2011
Approximately 150 people rallied on Monday to protest the fatal shooting of Charles Blair Hill on July 3 and BART's decision to shut down cellphone service last week when officials feared new protests. Although the group of protesters was small, ...

FCC Investigates BART Over Cellphone Shutdown

PCWorld (blog) - Daniel Ionescu - 16 Aug, 2011
The Bay Area Rapid Transit agency closed four San Francisco subway stations on Monday during protests sparked by cellular signal shutdowns. The demonstrations were against BART's decision last week to ...

Anonymous protests shut down BART in SF (photos)

ZDNet - 16 Aug, 2011
by ZDNet Author | August 15, 2011 9:00pm PDT | Image 1 of 18 In retaliation for BART's shutdown of cell phone service Thursday night at some BART stations to prevent another planned protest, protests organized by the hacker group Anonymous closed ...

FCC probing BART's shutdown of cellphone service

Los Angeles Times - 16 Aug, 2011
BART officials have come under increasing fire from First Amendment experts nationwide who say the agency overreached when it shut off cellphone service to thousands of train passengers last week to thwart a protest over police actions. ...

FCC to Investigate BART Cell Service Shutdown

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 16 Aug, 2011
The Federal Communications Commission confirmed Monday night that it will investigate San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) over its decision to shut down cell service in advance of a planned protest. ...

BART service disrupted by protests at 4 San Francisco stations [PHOTOS, VIDEO]

Washington Post (blog) - Elizabeth Flock - 16 Aug, 2011
BART police officers push back a protester at the Civic Center station in San Francisco on Monday. (Jeff Chiu - AP) As British Prime Minister David Cameron clamps down on cellphone services across the pond, Americans are facing a ...

BART cellphone shutdown won't lead to ACLU suit

CBS News - 16 Aug, 2011
(CBS/AP/KPIX) - The ACLU said Monday that they will not be filing suit against the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency, after BART cut off wireless and cellular service at stations in an effort to stifle a protest last week. After the ACLU met with BART's ...

BART Defends Cutting Off Cell Service In Subway

NPR - Laura Sydell - 16 Aug, 2011
Jevon Cochran protests in front of a BART train at the Civic Center station in San Francisco on Monday. Jevon Cochran protests in front of a BART train at the Civic Center station in San Francisco on Monday. Authorities in San Francisco ...

Anonymous protest closes San Francisco stations

ZDNet UK - Elinor Mills - 16 Aug, 2011
Online collective Anonymous organised a real-world demonstration in San Francisco on Monday, protesting against fatal shootings on the area's subway system. Photo credit: James Martin/CNET News The Bay ...

Cell Service Shutdown Raises Free Speech Questions

NPR - Carrie Johnson - 16 Aug, 2011
The shutdown of mobile phone service in San Fransisco Bay Area subway stations has constitutional experts hitting the law books. A man is pulled off a commuter train at the Civic Center BART station on July 11 in San Francisco after ...

Anonymous protests close San Francisco underground stations

The Guardian - 16 Aug, 2011
The Bart station Civic Centre was shut down after protesters gathered there. Police said there had been no arrests. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Four San Francisco underground rail stations shut temporarily on Monday during a demonstration ...

Police shut down San Francisco transit station after protests

msnbc.com (blog) - 16 Aug, 2011
Demonstrator Tom Comitta pretends to talk on a telephone during a protest inside the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Civic Center station on August 15 in San Francisco, California. The hacker group "Anonymous" staged a demonstration after BART officials ...

Cell service stays on during BART protest in SF

San Francisco Chronicle - 16 Aug, 2011
Jeff Chiu / AP BART police officers push back a protester at the Civic Center station in San Francisco on Monday. Cell phone service was operating as protesters gathered at a San Francisco subway station during rush-hour several days after transit ...

Cell Phones Stay On, but Protesters Disrupt SF Subway

PCWorld - Robert McMillan - 16 Aug, 2011
San Francisco's commuter railway left mobile phone services untouched during a closely watched protest Monday, but for many commuters that didn't matter because they were locked out of the railway system altogether. ...

Protests briefly close four BART stations, delaying thousands of passengers

San Jose Mercury News - Kristin Bender, Denis Cuff - 16 Aug, 2011
Thousands of passengers were stranded Monday as demonstrators angry over last week's BART cellphone blackout disrupted train service at four busy San Francisco stations during the evening commute. ...

Slope not that slippery in case of San Francisco cellphone shutdown

Chicago Tribune - Rex W. Huppke - 16 Aug, 2011
I like to imagine that if the patriots who penned the First Amendment had known about Twitter and Facebook and texting and people talking loudly on cellphones, the wording of the amendment might have been a bit more ...

This Is What an 'Anonymous' Protest Looks Like

PCWorld - Lauren Crabbe - 16 Aug, 2011
Media vans line up outside San Francisco's Civic Center BART station on August 15, 2011. [Photo: Lauren Crabbe]On the way home from work today, I decided to stop by the Anonymous protest to see what all ...

Free-speech advocates silent on BART hacking

San Francisco Chronicle - Andrew S. Ross - 16 Aug, 2011
Protesters caused an ugly scene in BART stations last month, which led the transit agency to cut off cell-phone service last week to prevent a repeat. Here's what happened when an ugly mob descended on San Francisco BART stations in July, ...

Anonymous BART Protest Shuts Down Several Underground Stations

PC Magazine - Damon Poeter - 16 Aug, 2011
Supporters of Anonymous took to the streets and subways Monday to rally against BART's suspension of cell phone service during a previous protest, forcing police to shut down several BART and Muni underground stations in San Francisco. ...

FCC To Investigate BART Cell Phone Interruption Scandal

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 16 Aug, 2011
Contrary to what some readers angrily claimed it would not do, the Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into the BART Cell Phone Service Interruption Scandal. The claim in this space was that BART's turning off station cell ...

Four BART subway stations temporarily shut down during hacker protests in San ...

Vancouver Sun - Emmett Berg, Peter Henderson - 16 Aug, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO - Four San Francisco subway stations shut down temporarily on Monday during a demonstration organized by the hacker group Anonymous over police brutality and free speech. The Bay Area Rapid Transit ...

BART Black-Out Leads to Hack-Back

Wall Street Journal - 16 Aug, 2011
It has not been a good month for municipal riders of the “Bay Area Rapid Transit” or BART system in San Francisco, California. On July 3, at the Civic Center station, a BART police official shot dead a man who appeared “wobbly” and possibly a danger to ...

BART reopens 4 San Francisco stations shut down amid protest

Los Angeles Times - 16 Aug, 2011
Transit agency officials in San Francisco reopened four downtown BART stations Monday night that had been shut down amid a protest against alleged brutality by transit agency police. The Civic Center, Montgomery, Powell Street and Embarcadero stations ...

Commuters turned away as protest closes 4 BART stations

Los Angeles Times - 16 Aug, 2011
Rush-hour commuters in San Francisco were turned away from BART on Monday evening after authorities shut down four stations amid a protest over alleged brutality by transit agency police. A portion of busy Market Street was also shut down as crowds ...

Hackers protest peacefully in San Francisco subway

Reuters Canada - Emmett Berg - 16 Aug, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A few dozen protesters turned out on Monday for a San Francisco rally organized by the hacker group Anonymous to protest alleged police brutality and what they called anti-free speech tactics by authorities. ...

The Bay Citizen - Demonstrators Protest BART 1

YouTube - 16 Aug, 2011
Protesters try to shut down Embarcadero station after being re-opened fo a few minutes.

 

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