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Flash-Mob Protests, The First Amendment & Public Safety

Flash-Mob Protests, The First Amendment & Public Safety

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Do authorities have a right to shut down cell phone service in the wake of flash-mob protests?  Case in point: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), after a confrontation in San Francisco’s Civic Center station, sparking protests.  Claiming public safety and fear of more protests, BART recently closed various San Francisco stations and disabled wireless reception, enraging passengers. Attorney and co-host Bob Ambrogi welcomes Attorney Marvin Ammori, Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society and Gene Policinski, Executive Director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, to take a look at this new challenge to public safety and balancing First Amendment rights.

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    August 19, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    [...] Yesterday, on a pleasant cross-country drive, I pulled over at a rest stop in Iowa and had the opportunity to be a guest on Lawyer 2 Lawyer discussing freedom of speech and new technology. The podcast is available here. [...]

  2. San Francisco Transit Pulls the Plug on Wireless Communications | Lippmann Would Roll says:
    August 19, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    [...] shutting down cell phone service necessarily affects commuters–whether related to the protests or not–beyond the boundaries of the “paid areas” of the BART [...]

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    August 27, 2011 at 12:05 pm

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