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Do the mountains have cell towers that are shut off when it is politically inconvenient? If it does, then yes, I would recommend legal action if you needed to contact emergency services and couldn't because they went out of their way to shut them off.

BART is fairly dangerous. It has it's own dedicated police force. Is it ok for movie theaters to jam cell phones? What happens when someone dies because they couldnt get thru to 911 during a protest in a major city? What about when they shut the Internet off during a riot in NY?

Does no one else see where this is going?




I might be a little more willing to fly into paranoia if I didn't remember that life did indeed exist, and in fact even go on, before cell phones.


Life existed before many things we now consider basic human rights. Safe food, safe vehicles (vehicles at all), etc.

So during the next protest they ban cars, including emergency vehicles? People got around just fine before cars.

I don't think you quite understand, we aren't talking about people not being able to all their friends, we're talking about 911.




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