Showing posts with label airports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airports. Show all posts

06 January 2013

Chinese Nobel Prize-Winner Says We Need Censorship Like We Need Airport Security

This year's winner of the Nobel prize in literature, the Chinese writer Mo Yan, was a controversial choice. Some saw him as too close to the Chinese establishment, and thus insufficiently heroic -- unlike the previous Chinese Nobel prize-winner, the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo

On Techdirt.

18 September 2008

St. Bruce Nails it Again

airport security has to make a choice. If something is dangerous, treat it as dangerous and treat anyone who tries to bring it on as potentially dangerous. If it's not dangerous, then stop trying to keep it off airplanes. Trying to have it both ways just distracts the screeners from actually making us safer.

Read the whole thing - it says it all.