Alex, I think you miss the more obvious implication of the Oscar Grant incident: a networked society allows anyone equal opportunity to disseminate information and be heard. While this has alarming effects for individual privacy, it also exposes government itself to a much greater level of scruitiny than was possible before. If your goal is maintaining a balance of power between the citizen and the state in the face of fundamental technological change, then sousveillance might provide a partial answer without the collateral damage to the justice system that would occur under your proposed form of civil dissobedience

-- AndreiVoinigescu - 11 May 2009