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Re:San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest by lucasjake on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:31PM (#2879685)
Really just seems like they're adding fuel to the fire. Its kind of a boneheaded move, as people will just organize the old fashioned way the next time around.

Just silly.

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Re:San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest by molecule on Friday August 12, 2011 @07:37PM (#2879704)
When it does succeed while BART is doing this, affected riders will be w/o rail AND cell service.

And many of them will be angry @ BART for disabling their ability to contact friends / family during delay, look up status and alternate routes on the web, etc.

wide ripple to heavy-handed tactics.

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Re:San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest by yummies on Friday August 12, 2011 @08:40PM (#2879837)
You can simply walk upstairs where there's normal cellphone reception, and you're good to go.

Now if you're stuck on a train in a tunnel because protesters are causing the system to shut down, that's a different situation, but still not decidedly evil or foolish for BART to turn off its cell service. In BART's defense, they did tell everyone earlier in the day to make alternate plans and prepare for delays.

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Re:San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest by pnathan on Friday August 12, 2011 @10:45PM (#2880077)
Yes, now I know about it, and I would never have heard about it otherwise.

I'm sure that more flowery rhetoric could be said about the whole business, but I'm going to go with:

Bad BART. Bad. Don't do it ever again.

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