SF Subway shuts down communications

[faethor]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-2...-shutdown/?tag=topTechContentWrap;editorPicks

SF Subway found out about a Flash Mob. It was being coordinated via CellPhones. In response they shutdown the Cellphone receivers in the subway.

This will prove to be interesting. It looks to me that the First Amendment rights of citizens were violated. They were clearly not free to communicate.

Of course the SF Subway responded with the typical -- We support Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest as long as it's done in the designated zone for such activity.

Now I'd love to blame the Obama Era but this is a right our Country has been eroding for a long time. For example, protests during the last few Republican Conventions are, again, allowed within the designated Free Speech Zone.

 

[the_leander]

That's a little concerning. Interesting though that there are now apps in development and available now to get around the issue.

Wonder when they'll go fully mainstream.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

If you want to cause mayhem, instead of protesting or flash mobbing, jam cell phones and GPS. Apparently that sort of thing is kosher so there shouldn't be any complaints.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Remember too that cutting off cell phone service, shutting down twitter and other internet feeds, etc., to quell dissent, are all things that "we" have criticized Syria, Libya, Iran, Burma and China for.

 

[Glaucus]

If you want to cause mayhem, instead of protesting or flash mobbing, jam cell phones and GPS. Apparently that sort of thing is kosher so there shouldn't be any complaints.

Any particular reason you had to make the irrelevant Jewish reference? Btw, the Syrians attacked Palestinian refugees yesterday, curious as to why there wasn't so much as a peep from the typical Palestinian defenders here. Or perhaps it's not the Palestinians people are concerned with...

 

[Glaucus]

Remember too that cutting off cell phone service, shutting down twitter and other internet feeds, etc., to quell dissent, are all things that "we" have criticized Syria, Libya, Iran, Burma and China for.

Now that I agree with.

 

[the_leander]

Remember too that cutting off cell phone service, shutting down twitter and other internet feeds, etc., to quell dissent, are all things that "we" have criticized Syria, Libya, Iran, Burma and China for.

And China recently welcomed the British government for looking at doing the same.

 

[the_leander]

Any particular reason you had to make the irrelevant Jewish reference?

Any particular reason you read into the use of the word "kosher" as anything other than an alternative to "ok" or "fine"?

Btw, the Syrians attacked Palestinian refugees yesterday, curious as to why there wasn't so much as a peep from the typical Palestinian defenders here.

Perhaps because I'd not heard about it? Funnily enough I have other things I'm in the middle of atm so am not really reading much news.

Or perhaps it's not the Palestinians people are concerned with...

I'll ask you to withdraw that remark.

 

[Glaucus]

Any particular reason you read into the use of the word "kosher" as anything other than an alternative to "ok" or "fine"?

There is actually. That's a word with a specific meaning and from what I know of Fluffy is that he picks his words carefully. If I'm wrong he can say so himself and I will eat my words because even though I may not always agree with him I do trust him to tell the truth.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Any particular reason you had to make the irrelevant Jewish reference?

It's irrelevant that it's Jewish. Goyim use it colloquially to mean "OK" or "acceptable" rather than Rabi approved.

Btw, the Syrians attacked Palestinian refugees yesterday, curious as to why there wasn't so much as a peep from the typical Palestinian defenders here. Or perhaps it's not the Palestinians people are concerned with...

Didn't hear about it. I will look it up.

 

[redrumloa]

It's irrelevant that it's Jewish. Goyim use it colloquially to mean "OK" or "acceptable" rather than Rabi approved.

Despite Fluffy's obvious disdain for Isreal, I have to back him here. I hear people commonly use kosher this way.

 

[Glaucus]

Ok, maybe I read too much into it. My apologizes.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Ok, maybe I read too much into it. My apologizes.

No problem and I see your point, though generally I do tend to use the word more to indicate that a thing has been pronounced "OK" by an authority because it carries that sort of weight however, of course, I am completely unable to support the concept of religious law so I use it secularly.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Despite Fluffy's obvious disdain for Isreal, ...

or any theocratic or religiously founded state. I don't recognize any of their G-d based claims and consider such claims illegitimate.

 

[Speelgoedmannetje]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-2...-shutdown/?tag=topTechContentWrap;editorPicks

SF Subway found out about a Flash Mob. It was being coordinated via CellPhones. In response they shutdown the Cellphone receivers in the subway.

This will prove to be interesting. It looks to me that the First Amendment rights of citizens were violated. They were clearly not free to communicate.

Of course the SF Subway responded with the typical -- We support Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Protest as long as it's done in the designated zone for such activity.

Now I'd love to blame the Obama Era but this is a right our Country has been eroding for a long time. For example, protests during the last few Republican Conventions are, again, allowed within the designated Free Speech Zone.

My goodness...
Now if there was an accident, or something strange, then who'd you gonna call?

 

[cecilia]

Ok, maybe I read too much into it. My apologizes.

at first I thought you were kidding! everyone in NY uses that expression.

because my mother is a polyglot, I'm aware of it's origin (as I first heard that word from her), but I have no desire to convert