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"Occupy Google" Protesters Arrested Outside Tech Giant's Mountain View Headquarters
NBC Bay Area ^ | Wednesday, Jun 25, 2014

Posted on 06/25/2014 10:15:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Video posted to YouTube by "Buzz Sourse" appears to show protesters being taken into custody

Ten protesters were arrested outside of Google's Mountain View headquarters Tuesday night as part of an "Occupy Google" protest to pressure the company to take a stronger stand for unrestricted access to the Internet, police said Wednesday.

Google had allowed protesters to remain on the property at its headquarters at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway throughout the day but had asked that they leave for the night and offered to allow them to return in the morning, according to police.

The group of about 20 protesters was warned starting at about 9 p.m. to leave the area by 9:30 p.m. but they refused. By about 11 p.m., Mountain View police had convinced the group to pack up and leave, but two protesters sat down and refused, police said.

As those two were arrested, some of the other protesters left but about eight more remained in the area and they were arrested as well. The 10 protesters were booked into San Jose Main Jail, police said.

SF Parking App Makers Threatened With Fines, Lawsuit The protesters said Monday that they were there not to protest against Google, but to "urge Google to support net neutrality," according to protester Vaigham Kabir.

The group is worried about a proposal by Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler to create a "two-tier" system permitting service providers to offer fast connection speeds for fee-paying content providers and a second, slower speed for others.

The FCC will be taking comments about the proposal until July 15.

Occupy Google organizers are calling for a day of action and online protest on July 10, urging website operators to "blackout" their sites for the day and instead post links to online petitions and the FCC's comments page for people to express support for net neutrality.

Photos: Google’s Eric Schmidt Buys Peck Estate For $22M Protesters also plan to gather outside the Google Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Wednesday morning -- this time to call for Google to support good jobs for security officers and affordable housing development.


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1 posted on 06/25/2014 10:15:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Google IS evil.


2 posted on 06/25/2014 10:17:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: nickcarraway
Ten protesters were arrested outside of Google's Mountain View headquarters

Ten whole protestors eh?

3 posted on 06/25/2014 10:19:47 PM PDT by PGR88
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Meanwhile we could get 10,000 to protest Obama and not get a peep from the MSM


4 posted on 06/25/2014 10:24:43 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Paladin2

Watch what you say....Goggle is watching.


5 posted on 06/25/2014 10:29:18 PM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: GeronL

Bingo. What a joke. Are these the same group from Occupy Wall Street?


6 posted on 06/25/2014 10:29:44 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway

Ten “protesters” wanting more free stuff from Google. LOL...what happened to protestors with legitimate causes?


7 posted on 06/25/2014 10:35:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nickcarraway

Hate Googlescum, but also hate Occutards.


8 posted on 06/25/2014 10:46:04 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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9 posted on 06/25/2014 10:46:40 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: Viennacon

That’s either a guy, or else it was a really hard 20 years.


10 posted on 06/25/2014 11:05:41 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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Ugh, I hate being reminded of this civilian leftist kill squad. What happened during those weeks was scary, just how many hippie lemmings they got out on the street. If that happens again (and it will because the next recession Obama will blame on ‘greedy banks’), these guys and girls-who-look-like-really-ugly-guys will be killing women and children in their homes.

Then its time to lock and load for some Cobra style street justice. We can probably throw a brick through the Google center as well, since they suck as much as Occupy.


11 posted on 06/25/2014 11:09:08 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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You can get plenty of vengeance. But there will be no justice.


12 posted on 06/26/2014 12:41:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: dayglored
I say it's a guy.
13 posted on 06/26/2014 2:27:02 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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