It surprises me that this isn't done more. Turn off the cell phone towers and no more Blackberry bbm or twitter tweets. An easy way for the powers that be to stop electronic protest planning.
http://bit.ly/rctKur
SAN FRANCISCO—Transit officials 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, better known as BART, said Friday that they turned off electricity to cellular towers in four stations from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The move was made after BART learned that protesters planned to use mobile devices to co-ordinate a demonstration on train platforms.
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I doubt it'll be a useful long term solution. The protesters can just schedule a protest every day of the week but only actually show up for one of them.
Does this not violate the right to freedom of speech and association ?
Retribution was swift.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20092221-93/anonymous-defaces-bart-site-leaks-user-data/
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