Intelligence Weekly: Technology For Liberty

Tonight I read this article on Huffington Post. Apparently Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officials in San Fran got a hot tip that a protest was set to occur, and they decided to cut cellular communications in order to prevent people from coordinating a potentially dangerous gathering.

Lately there has been a great deal of discussion on the subject of technology being used to promote liberty, in light of the Arab Spring. Check out this article on the impact and relevance of social media during the uprisings.

After reading the HuffPo article about BART, I browsed some of the comments to see how others felt about the situation. As one can expect when reading any comments related to a politically charged situation, the reactions were very polarized. I did hit a link from one of the indignant reactors that took me to the source of my inspiration for this post: a YouTube video of Naomi Wolf speaking to an audience about her book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. I highly encourage you to follow the link and watch the video. Over 1 million people have seen it--a testament to technology for the preservation and promotion of liberty--and I feel it's such important subject matter for anyone who cares about the fundamental liberty that we stand to lose.