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A handful of downtown stations had their data flow stopped by the Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority on Thursday evening without any prior notice being issued.  The Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority claims that they successfully thwarted a planned protest by doing so, but technology activists, many of whom have assisted in providing protestors in China and Egypt with anti-censorship and anti-monitoring equipment, are outraged by the move, describing such an action as unprecedented in the United States and saying that it was a blatant breach of constitutional protections for assembly and free speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cCutting off cell phone service in response to a planned protest is a shameful attack on free speech,\u201d reckons the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an activist group located in San Francisco.  \u201cBART officials are showing themselves to be of a mind with the former President of Egypt, who ordered the shutdown of cell phone service in Tahrir Square in response to peaceful, democratic protests earlier this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some groups have said that they have written to the US Federal Communications Commission to complain about the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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