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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by saurik on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:04PM (#30263810)
I'd even add basic things like the TSA to the list: the government says this is required for everyone to be safe, but every single study or analysis shows it is ineffective and security experts universally deride it; and yet, the "authority"--which might literally be the agent at the scanner with a smug attitude about the whole thing--is adamant this is important and that maybe you are a terrorist for nothing other than making a sarcastic joke about the situation.
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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by zdragnar on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:38PM (#30265108)
My elderly parents were both submitted to full body pat downs and my dad had to pull up his pant leg to demonstrate that yes, his leg brace was a medical device.

Neither of them are physically capable of overwhelming my preschooler nephew let alone an air flight attendant.

So much theater for so little security.

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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by zdragnar on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @07:09PM (#30280695)
Looking back on this comment, I probably should have included that this happened within the last month, as if we haven't had 20 years of practice figuring this out.
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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by VikingCoder on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:24PM (#30264106)
No one wants to sign a bill pulling back TSA, and then see the headline "TSA would have stopped this terrorist."

Voters are not reasonable, and the media fans those flames.

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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by saurik on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:30PM (#30264189)
Is that supposed to make me feel better, or worse? ;P I will say that if everyone (including the agent at the gate who doesn't seem to want to admit this to even themselves) said that out loud--instead of claiming it was a critical security measure--it would make me feel a lot better about the whole thing and I might not even be upset about it anymore (though at that point you might also see the public opinion holding it together change).
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