San Francisco Subway Shuts Cell Service to Foil Protest; Legal Debate Ignites

For apparently the first time in the United States, a government agency shuttered mobile-internet and phone service in a bid to quash a demonstration — the same type of speech suppression exercised by Middle Eastern tyrannies to quell dissent.

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/subway-internet-shuttering/

For apparently the first time in the United States, a government agency shuttered mobile-internet and phone service in a bid to quash a demonstration — the same type of speech suppression exercised by Middle Eastern tyrannies to quell dissent.