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Which will be promptly ignored.

• jdp23 14y ago
  Yes and no. The TSA does have to respond to the comments, but can simply reaffirm the proposed rule without changes after the comment period. On the other hand, a loud public outcry in comments can lead to changes -- both from the regulatory agency and in Congress (by highlighting a vote-winning issue). There have been a couple of very successful civil liberties commenting campaigns (Know Your Customer, although it eventually got introduced via the Patriot Act; and Stop Real ID, which involved a very similar coalition to the one that's likely to be getting involved here).
  • gergles 14y ago
    KYC was implemented for everything, including prepaid credit cards. Real ID is very real; basically every state is now a member of the DMVPP and passes data freely, including to Canada and Mexico. How exactly did comment campaigns do anything? I agree with the GP, the whole exercise is a farce. TSA will have the same guy that writes the condescending "pat pat You don't understand why the grownups want to do this" responses to the We The People petitions respond to all of these comments invoking 9/11 and how the world has changed and how sometimes you just have to accept unpleasant things.
• huhtenberg 14y ago
  Or, TSA has already decided to take the scanners down, and so now they are just looking to pick up free goodwill since it's bloody obvious what the public would say on the matter.
  • ck2 14y ago
    The are certainly not taking the scanners down. They are only changing the technological method of scanning. If anything they are trying to get scanners in more places outside of airports. If I remember reading correctly, the old scanners are still going to be in use at like courthouses.
• pmorici 14y ago
  My immediate thought was they must be running short on TP.