News That Matters: BART Protest & The Power of Social Media

Following yet another incident of police shooting a man Anonymous simply had enough and decided to stage a protest at the Civic Center in the Bay Area Rapid Transit area of downtown San Francisco. BART's response? Censorship.
BART had plans to shut down cell service to the area in order to prevent people from protesting or from using their cell phones to organize.. Even in case of emergency, they simply wanted certain cell phone carriers to deny service in the station. Which apparently is completely legal since it is the BARTs property.

Nobody seems to like that however and following quick search on YouTube anyone can find raw footage of the protest today: http://bit.ly/oEQ18Q

One thing I would like to point out here, is the power of social media. For instance... how many cameras do you see in the picture above?? Granted a lot of those could simply be media outlets but it's the power of social media that brought them there in the first place.

Social Networking in this age of the internet is remarkable in the sense that it allows anyone and everyone to communicate an idea instantaneously to other people. While some may view this as dangerous, others see it as something sacred (I included). To put a censor on the activities of a group that uses social networking is like trying to put a cap on the Freedom of Speech, and evidently Facebook is attempting to do just that (http://bit.ly/p6L2Af)
It would appear that Facebook is trying to censor political activism, or at least misinterpreting politics as spam.

While a lot of people may find politics a bad topic to talk about... either simply not caring or finding it annoying... You think Facebook would have the sense to not shut someone up about their opinion. You have a right to whine and complain about how much you hate politics as much as someone has a right to whine and complain that you don't care enough about it. Which reminds me of a saying...