Love/Hate
How a Phone Glitch Sparked a Teenage Riot
When kids turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet, police cracked down with brutal force
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16 min readDec 20, 2018
On a Friday night in September 1982, teenagers poured out of the Fridhemsplan metro station. First just a few dozen, then hundreds, and soon more than a thousand of them…