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FCC Launches Inquiry Into BART Wireless Service Shutdown

in News on August 15, 2011 at 3:48 pm PT

The Federal Communications Commission is looking into the circumstances of a shutdown of wireless phone service at four San Francisco train stations during a protest.
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San Francisco’s BART Subway Defends Protest-Stifling Cellphone Shutdown

in Mobile on August 13, 2011 at 5:40 am PT

Authorities said they shut down cellphone 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 everyone on the platform.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation immediately described the move as a “Mubarak”; others noted the parallels with the United Kingdom’s proposal to limit phone and social media services in the wake of that country’s riots.

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DVD Jon’s Ad at the Apple Store: The Mystery Continues

in News on June 12, 2009 at 2:52 pm PT

It’s up. It’s down. It’s up. It’s down. That’s the brief, updated history of a billboard-style ad posted by the Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen next to Apple’s store in downtown San Francisco, the subject of an item here last Saturday.