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UNITED AIRLINES air hostess came up with an unusual excuse to make tech writer John Battelle hang up a video chat on her flight.
Apparently the hack who works for
Valleywag was using video chat to his daughters on the plane.
The flight attendant apparently came up with the daft idea that he should not use video chat because he might be calling a terrorist. Maybe she thought Battelle could be communicating with a terrorist cell and was about to set fire to his underpants.
She said it was okay for him to talk with his kids using email or the web. Terrorists don't use email or social notworking websites like Twitter, apparently.
Obviously if United Airlines was really worried about terrorists chatting using in-plane Internet access it should not have had the hardware installed that might enable them to do it.
It seems that anxious people use the terms 'terrorist' or 'paedophile' automatically these days to calm their vague fears and justify any sort of stupid, knee-jerk oppression they like.
