This one's been making the rounds.

[azurelunatic]

There are people I can't talk politics anymore with, because they're so conspiracy-theorist that I have to put on the blank face and smile-and-nod and wonder if they and I are living on the same planet, or should be.

But censorship on the ferry is just too fucking far.

Comments

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I agree. I clicked the link to the book, and can't even see how that would be remotely inapproriate. Some people!

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Even if the book had been "inappropriate", how could its confiscation be justified in the name of public safety?

[azurelunatic]

I don't think it could have been.

I think there would have been a lot of legal yodling, and probably some lost jobs.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

That too. Had it been "The Terrorist Handbook" I could understand it - but otherwise they really don't have a case.

[wibbble]

Even then, actual terrorists aren't going to carry around something like that. It's like saying that having a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook in your bag makes you a terrorist suspect. Terrorists don't carry guidebooks around with them, it's kind of attention-drawing.

Most of the security measures I hear about in the US rely on terrorists being really stupid. Unfortunately, lots of them are really intelligent... or at least smarter than the pondscum searching bags on that ferry.