This incident may be an indication of things to come: a willingness of authorities to shut down the internet to prevent protests and activism in spite of its gross violation of First Amendment Constitutional rights.
This week, EFF has seen censorship stories move closer and closer to home — first Iran, then the UK, and now San Francisco, an early locus of the modern free speech movement. Operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) shut down cell phone service to four stations in downtown San Francisco yesterday in response to a planned protest.See also this piece by the same author.