The American carrier, BART has Friday the mobile network in the metro cars in San Francisco shut down to protest against to keep. Protesters would no longer communicate in protests against the metrobedrijf.
BART may be the mobile network in its subway system to turn off, because the equipment therefor, in control, writes the local news site SFGate. By the measure could no more call, sms or mobile internet in the subways and subway stations of the carrier. Normally that can be done: the users have a good range in the metros.
The carrier took the measure after it found out that people in a coordinated way wanted to protest against BART. The coordination of the actions would be conducted via phones. The protests are directed against the company, because the security service some time ago a man has been shot. According to the protesters was unjustified.
The measure would the anger have the impression of both privacy organizations as well as residents of the city, reports SFGate. They compare the shutdown of mobile networks with measures of dictatorships to their own people to suppress. Under former president Mubarak of Egypt had mobile networks and the internet shut down to protests the head to press.
Now think the British government even after such measures to riots, such as who last week took place in large cities in Great Britain. Through social media such as Twitter and messaging services like BlackBerry Messenger to block, would be rioters no longer able to communicate, and as a result, riots are less able to be coordinated. Critics find that crap: social media and messaging services are also use to warn people against rioters. In addition, social media and messaging services do not need to riot to organize: people appeared there thousands of years ago without modern technology though.
