http://news.yahoo.com/cellphones-blo...041114962.html
AP – 3 hrs ago.....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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, better known as BART, said 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 coordinate a demonstration on train platforms.
A civil disturbance during commute times at busy downtown San Francisco stations could lead to platform overcrowding and unsafe conditions for BART customers, employees and demonstrators," BART officials said in a prepared statement.
The statement noted that it's illegal to demonstrate on the platform or aboard the trains. BART said it has set aside special areas for demonstrations.
The American Civil Liberties Union questioned the tactic.
BART officials were confident the cellphone disruptions were legal. The demonstration planned Thursday failed to develop.....snip~
Here is California's response to shuting down just one way that people are able to communicate using a social network? This was done by a Transit Authority. BART. People had set up protests. Upon discovery of the information this Transit Authority Shut down Power to not one but 4 towers in an effort to stop the protests.
What Questions are being answered with this type of response.....BART thinks they have broken no laws and that their disruption of service was legal. Is it??? Service was interrupted by an outside source. One that is not Homeland Security, Nor Frisco Police or their City Government. There was no call made by the Govenor to do such. Should some Transit Authority be allowed to do such? Thoughts?