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Statement on San Francisco BART cellphone service shutdown

Aug 14, 2011 | Free Speech, Transparency

Repressive foreign governments – in China, Egypt, Iran and Syria, to name just a few – have cut off communications (the Internet, mobile service and landline) as a means to repress dissent or expressive acts the...

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