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US forbids any device larger than cellphone on airlines from 13 countries
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cartoon_soldier
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I wish I knew enough to know how accurate this claim is.
Someone probably forwarded this to Bannon
Messofanego
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More security theatre bigoted bullshit.
But no security theatre over domestic homegrown terrorists that cause terrorist attacks in USA every week or month.
But no security theatre over domestic homegrown terrorists that cause terrorist attacks in USA every week or month.
LyleLanley
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I thought it was the Wii U that bombed.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Coldblooded, dude.
Any Questions
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Classic spreading of fear. Setting himself up as protector of the people. Just what is needed when he is looking down the barrel of an FBI probe into his feelings.
Shame for all the innocent traveling folk
LyleLanley
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That's inconvenient. I know my insurance wouldn't cover any kind of damage or loss of property if I were stupid enough, their definition, to put a laptop in the non carry on baggage. Not that I would travel to the US from any of these locations, or at all, but if insurance is the same in those locations I feel a lot of sympathy.
I fly to the US from the middle east, the flights I take usually stop over in Amsterdam and London though, so they aren't affected by this. It's still obnoxious though.
Apparently the intel about some kind of AL Qaeda plot regarding bombing planes using electronics has been around for months but the Yemen raid prompted them to finally act on it.
I suppose it could have a rational reason behind it, but it smells too much like another convenient way to make it a bigger hassle for people in that region to visit the US.
Apparently the intel about some kind of AL Qaeda plot regarding bombing planes using electronics has been around for months but the Yemen raid prompted them to finally act on it.
I suppose it could have a rational reason behind it, but it smells too much like another convenient way to make it a bigger hassle for people in that region to visit the US.
Jesus christ someone call the 911.
IdreamofHIME
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So electronics are banned from the airport that will be the main hub for the 2022 FIFA world cup?
lmao, hopefully Trumps in Jail by then.
lmao, hopefully Trumps in Jail by then.
CyclopsRock
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Yeah, to say nothing of the VDU. I almost never take a tablet or laptop on a flight. Which isn't to say this ban's justified (though maybe it is - seems weird they'd let you have a phone but not a tablet if it wasn't actually security related) but I think people are slightly overeacting to the prospect of taking a flight which is roughly analogous to how it was ~6 years ago (but with a better VDU and a better phone).
LyleLanley
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Stereogatari
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Surprised Turkish Airlines and Istanbul are on there.
This doesn't make any sense. Because those "dangerous" devices are still checked in the plane and there's nothing stopping a terrorist from re-routing through one of the non-banned airlines. Unless they think the threat is from some lazy terrorists or if they are short on money.
MikeHattsu
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Hm... People traveling for business that works on their laptop while flying will be screwed though.
Yup. Dubai is a business capital of the Middle East, and Jordan is a diplomatic hub.
I know lawyers that are able to bill maybe $5000 of work on trans-pacific flights just working on WiFi and their laptop.
It's probably payback for those 3 Yemenis who sued NASA for trespassing on Mars.
NyMartin90
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I went to Egypt in February and the staff made everyone with laptops on board the return flight take them out and turn them on before boarding.
Leave through any airport in the UK and you'll see signs saying every device must be able to be switched on. The implication is that if it can't be turned-on at request, it has to be left behind.
Specifically, the president hates Muslims.
talisayNon
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uhh...doesn't he realize that for a lot of Americans Doha, Dubai or even Abu Dhabi are gateways to the East/Africa?
Stupid.
Stupid.
I'm genuinely surprised at how many posters in this thread are still, even after two failed attempts to ban Muslims from America and deliberately cruel immigration enforcement actions, willing to assume that THIS onerous and frustrating order, which targets only Muslim-majority countries, must represent a genuine national security concern rather than just another effort to stick it to brown people.
Where does that benefit of the doubt come from for you people, exactly?
Where does that benefit of the doubt come from for you people, exactly?
acheron_xl
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This seems like US airline trade-protectionism blended with Islamophobia to me.
I think it's a us3/me3 thing.
I think it's a us3/me3 thing.
Gordon Shumway
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Vivalaraza
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Hey hey, give the man a chance would you!
SuperBanana
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This literally makes no sense. They check all laptops and tablets at security and scan everything.
Likely.
So my sister can't travel from Dubai with her 6 year olds iPad because she and her kid are Muslim and coming from a Muslim majority country. This is just this administrations way of getting around the travel ban. If they can't succeed in banning Muslims, they're just going to resort to these kinds of tactics to dissuade people from coming.
It's actually a very effective way of making Muslim families feel extremely unwelcomed to the US. Then people have worry about the extra questioning at the airport where they have started separating children from the parents. Awful stuff.
It's actually a very effective way of making Muslim families feel extremely unwelcomed to the US. Then people have worry about the extra questioning at the airport where they have started separating children from the parents. Awful stuff.
TeamLeftMatch
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Well my chances of going to America went from 0% to never in my life.
Sho_Nuff82
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Won't this not work for the same reason the previous ban didn't work? It's still targeting Muslims, and you can't do that.
Frankfurter
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Quite confused that you can't have them with you, but it's okay as checked baggage. Wasn't their a ban or sth. a some point in checked baggage for batteries?
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This is just Trump's muslim ban getting more and more weak sauced tbh
ban all muslims!!!111 (oops apparantly we can't do that) ->ban people from 13 predominantly muslim countries!!!111 (shut down by the court) ->ban people from TWELVE predeominantly muslim countries!!!!11!! (shut down by the court) -> AT LEAST WE'LL TAKE THEIR IPADS!!!!!111 (?)
ban all muslims!!!111 (oops apparantly we can't do that) ->ban people from 13 predominantly muslim countries!!!111 (shut down by the court) ->ban people from TWELVE predeominantly muslim countries!!!!11!! (shut down by the court) -> AT LEAST WE'LL TAKE THEIR IPADS!!!!!111 (?)
Sucks for business travel. I'm pretty sure we have corporate policies in place to never leave your work laptop unattended (or check it in baggage) due to corporate confidentiality and/or theft reasons. And that's not to mention being completely unproductive on 10+ hour flights.
I guess I don't understand what it accomplishes anyway. If you can get a electronics bomb through security, does it matter much if it goes off in the luggage hold instead of the cabin?
Charles Brandon
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Weird. Is there anything you can do with a laptop that you can't do with a phone if you really want to?
why?
like what's the reasoning?
makes no sense like everything this administration is trying to do.
you can get smaller than a phone even.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero-w/
like what's the reasoning?
makes no sense like everything this administration is trying to do.
you can get smaller than a phone even.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero-w/
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