The board that oversees public transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area has drawn up rules that prohibit twittering, blogging or using cell phones at meetings.
Why, you ask, would a board prohibit seemingly innocuous tweets? Click on the jump for the story.
Some background: The board came under fire after an unarmed man was shot dead by transit police
-- a perfectly reasonable thing discuss and debate. But things went
downhill after a protester threw red paint during the board meeting.
Keeping with the tradition of (over)reacting to these kinds of things, the board did the totally (un)reasonable thing of banning tweets and a whole slew of things, including booing and clapping during meetings.
I mean, because why shouldpeasants taxpayers have a right to boo and clap at the Kings and Queens that rule over us public servants?
[gawker via California Beat]
Keeping with the tradition of (over)reacting to these kinds of things, the board did the totally (un)reasonable thing of banning tweets and a whole slew of things, including booing and clapping during meetings.
I mean, because why should
[gawker via California Beat]
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