Not on airplanes!!!! Many more people have been killed by Muslims/terrorists on an airplane than by guns ON AN AIRPLANE...we are talking about laptops being banned on airplanes, and not just in society (as you say), right?
Conflating Muslims with terrorists, are we?
I envy you the serene simplicity of your world view - untroubled by anything so complex as nuance or context - as evidenced in your posts.
This has nothing to do with Terrorists, this has everything to do with high profit legitimate customers being forced onto US owned aircraft.
By taking out the hubs for competing airlines, these passengers will instead use a flight where they CAN use their devices, and these hubs are where US owned aircraft have better access.
For example the USA has about 38 "Hubs" where various companies fly through , so instead of a direct flight you have a stop over in one of these hubs. It concentrates passengers and allows a greater efficiency and profit. If you ruin a hub (such as not allowing portable devices in the cabin) high profit customers will use an alternative airline.
This is all about removing competition for high paying customers in the from/to USA flight sector.
Excellent post. And well said.
I don't feel like getting hammered so I just won't say. I'd guess that many know where I'm coming from. It's the new reality. For now.
I still haven't a clue of what you are alluding to, let alone attempting to discuss.
But, puzzles are fun.
"Abundantly clear" where? And I included "Muslims" specifically because the original post that garnered the comment was about Muslims specifically".
And Muslims - as others have pointed out - are a major world religion and are found across the world. Moreover - and this may come as some surprise - not all Muslim cultures are the same (I have worked in a number of different Muslim countries to date across two continents); even within the same country, the interpretation of cultural norms and theological advice and guidance may differ quite strikingly between - say, Sunni and Shia, between rural and urban, between ethnicities, between the more educated and those who have not enjoyed such advantages - and so on.....
The world is curiously complicated and complex, you know.
Until some right wing paranoia takes on these dangerous books too. Looking at the logic applied to laptops, the clock's ticking for books.
Yes, I remember how in the wake of 9/11 there was an especially idiotic (and quite sinister) government plan to seek information on what books people checked out in libraries.
I used to teach politics (and history) for a living; that, added to an unhealthy desire to find out what was happening in the world - which meant extensive reading in areas that were not my academic specialities - would have meant that my library reading could have given rise to A Lot Of Awkward Questions.
Pilot error? I thought we were talking about guns and terrorists, and now you're talking about pilot error? I'm done.
And I am talking about reasons why those who died 1) violently in the US itself (your own lunatics - sometimes white alienated disaffected males, or gang stuff in deprived neighbourhoods, or 2) while airborne - died.
Few enough in the US - statistically speaking - have died as a result of terrorism, either in the mainland US itself, or airborne.
This is a profit grab - disguised by pleading the interests of national security proposed by an administration with neither competence, experience, moral authority nor any remote degree of intellectual credibility.
Nowadays, when this administration proposes something surreal, my first question is 1) what are they seeking to distract us from?
And my second is 2) how are they personally gaining form this - because they seem to have a problem understanding that the public good is not about lining the private pocket,
And my third observation is - 3) - as they clearly fail to understand the rights enshrined in the constitution, and view the separation of powers and the notion of constitutional checks and balances as an inconvenience put there simply and solely to thwart them out of mulish bloodymindedness, this is really another attempt to increase - in a most authoritarian manner - the rights of the state to snoop into, control and access the data of those entering and leaving the country.
