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The history of this “struggle” against restrictions on digital device usage on flights started with one New York Times reporter picking up the flag of freedom …
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Nick Bilton and the band of first-world freedom fighters’ history of struggle against the oppressive regime of FAA and other digital device usage suppressors on flights, in links (in chronological order):
- FAA to review mobile device and Internet phone use during flights
- It’ll be a while before the FAA approves mobile device usage during takeoff
- The NYT’s Nick Bilton really, really wants to use his iPad on a plane
- U.S. senator and private plane aficionado McCaskill wants FAA to relax on-board electronics use
- Will 2013 be the year the FAA comes clean on portable electronics?
- The 25 people that will decide if you can use your iPad during take off and landing
- Study of portable electronic use on airplanes expected to relax rules
- Airline groups split on in-flight mobile use, not enough data on interference
- FAA draft envisions “gate to gate” use of electronic devices on certain aircraft
- Easy in-flight digital device usage is coming, but could take a while
- An explanation for flyers’ irrational anger at the FAA electronics ban
- FAA Panel Ready To Recommend Easing Restrictions on Electronic Devices
- FAA Panel Backs Easing of Digital Devices on Planes
Photo Credit: The fearless leader Nick Bilton, leading us all to the promised land -- sorry, we mean skies -- of digital device usage freedom. Tom Igoe / Flickr