Original Article on Wired Magazine

On Oct. 15, groups of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement began filing into the branch offices of their banks in order to close their accounts. Later that day, videos began to show up online of those protesters being arrested. Irate branch managers had called the cops, claiming that those who were crowded into the branch to close their accounts were being disruptive, so police began hauling the protesters away for booking. The spectacle of citizens being arrested for attempting to close out their personal bank accounts made a splash in the usual corners of the Internet mainly blogs and Twitter. But one place where information about the protest was conspicuously absent was Google.Like the larger Occupy Wall Street mov...(read more)