Oppressed Digital Device Users On Flights: History of Their Freedom Fight, in Links
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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 ...
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. Flickr / Tom Igoe
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