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I don't think there is any attempt at anything. It's just written by someone not very intelligent supervised by someone of similar intelligence swimming in a s

• ktizo 15y ago
  ...wallowing in an ocean of despair, on a planet of delusion. ;)
• betterth 15y ago
  Exactly. Someone got assigned to "blog duty" at the TSA, of which TSA management has no idea what a blog is, or why it is important, but there is a regulation somewhere, or a rule, that says the TSA must maintain a blog. So someone maintains a blog. This is my estimation of the situation. A Hanlon's Razor moment: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
  • fluidcruft 15y ago
    I think there's probably an element of: "Bob, we need you to write something now about this video everyone is emailing each other" and Bob not having any authority, information or resources to actually address anything.
  • zyeljanee 15y ago
    But if you read carefully its like there is some truth in it. Nowadays people are doing crazy things without thinkig about the consequences.
  • jakejake 15y ago
    Or it could have been carefully written for a specific target audience (of which HN readers are not a part). Mind control!
    • betterth 15y ago
      Switch razors to Occam's Razor: all other things being equal, the idea that makes the fewest assumptions is better. Either the government is engaging in a disinformation campaign that is so broad and so pervasive that even the blogs at the TSA are involved... Or it's some idiot at an ineffective government organization who screwed up.