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Passengers on a United Express flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., were horrified when a man was forcibly removed--violently wrenched from his seat and physically dragged down the aisle. [...] Videos of the scene have prompted calls to boycott United Airlines.
[...] The Chicago Department of Aviation [...] says the actions of the security officers were "not condoned by the Department" and that one individual has been placed on leave pending a review.
[...] Passengers had already boarded on Sunday evening [April 10] at O'Hare International Airport when United asked for volunteers to take another flight the next day to make room for four United staff members who needed seats.
The airline offered $400 and a free hotel, passenger Audra D. Bridges told the Louisville Courier-Journal. When no one volunteered, the offer was doubled to $800. When there were still no bites, the airline selected four passengers to leave the flight--including the man in the video and his wife.
"They told him he had been selected randomly to be taken off the flight", Bridges said.
[...] The man said he was a doctor and that he "needed to work at the hospital the next day", passenger Jayse D. Anspach said.
[...] Both Bridges and Anspach posted videos of three security officers, who appear to be wearing the uniforms of Chicago aviation police, wrenching the man out of his seat, prompting wails. His face appeared to strike an armrest. Then they dragged his limp body down the aisle.
Footage shows the man was bleeding from the mouth as they dragged him away. His glasses were askew and his shirt was riding up over his belly.
"It looked like he was knocked out, because he went limp and quiet and they dragged him out of the plane like a rag doll", Anspach wrote.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 12 2017, @04:55PM (13 children)
You're right. But his/her point seems to be that before long, corporations like United, will bribe congress and whoever else it takes to have unlimited powers to scrub the internet nice and shiny sparkling clean. With a smile.
It won't matter if people get cell phone videos of police re-accommodating people's bones to new locations or multiple pieces. Or re-accommodating their eyes out of their sockets. The point seems to be that in the future, it won't get to the web, or if it gets there it sure won't stay there long.
The mainstream media may be corporate and government lapdogs today. And the internet isn't. But before too long, the internet service providers will be lapdogs too.
Which administration will introduce the new executive department of The Ministry of Truth?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 12 2017, @05:50PM (2 children)
Germany is already on it [soylentnews.org] hiring former Stasi staff etc. The cat is still out of the bag however so any attempt to move in a bad direction will just cultivate counter moves by a whole army of skilled people.
You are probably right in that it may not reach the web. It will instead reach a lot harder places to scrub with people that have a less timid response once they find out about the scrubbing attempts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13 2017, @02:59AM (1 child)
Nice try. The few remaining SS are too old for active service.
Good godwin tho.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 14 2017, @03:25PM
Stasi is DDR (1946-1989) product, not a Nazi thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @05:57PM (1 child)
Yep, what he said. Facebook already did some scrubbing of Dakota Pipeline protest videos. They were totally available, then within a very short time (same day) the videos began getting scrambled then completely lost. So yeah, we've already come to this corporate controlled new world but we still have the freedom to take our online business elsewhere. In the not too distant future we will either have laws on the books to allow such censorship in a convoluted way: maybe a false DMCA takedown that takes weeks to clear up and then gets hit with another one. "Gee sorry dunno why our automated copyright protection system keeps targeting your content!??!"
Or just repealing net neutrality will mean that corporations can "adjust" the network traffic as they see fit or completely block any traffic they don't like. Unless a serious portion of the population catches on and complains it will be a simple matter to keep thousands of protesters from gaining mainstream momentum. We will all be isolated, yet feel connected through the mainstream info services. That is the future being pushed RIGHT NOW with all this "free market" and "down with regulation" stuff being shoved down our throats.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 14 2017, @03:33PM
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc.. Is-not-your-computer. Thus whoever owns them can mess with you any way they want. So anyone that wants to have control better have their own machine hosting the stuff. Or even better a distributed solution where no single point of failure nor any place to raid.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday April 12 2017, @06:00PM
They will use "copyright" and "fake news" laws to do it.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @07:32PM (3 children)
There's been a fair amount of ink/bytes recently about Mastodon, a decentralized microblogging thing that some are claiming will de-throne Twitter.
With the distributed, not-just-a-single-server thing, it kinda makes me think of USENET.
Throw in mesh networking and maybe there is hope for an information channel with less noise and greater veracity.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday April 13 2017, @02:10PM (2 children)
Hey! Just signed up, and trying it out. Never got onto twitter because of ... 'cause, but will try this out.
Thanks for the mention!
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday April 13 2017, @02:12PM (1 child)
Just did my first TOOT!
So proud....
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14 2017, @12:44AM
Let's look at everything Mastodon gets wrong. [mashable.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Thursday April 13 2017, @04:42AM (2 children)
Twitter is apparently already scrubbing posts on the incident [thenextweb.com]. It's dangerous that people mistake twitter and facebook for communications instead of seeing them for the control and surveillance.
The surveillance [democracynow.org] is part of the business model [newyorker.com]. The control is more insidious. Some topics just don't turn up in people's feeds despite there being many posts. And so, most people just assume that the topic is unimportant or if a viewpoint is missing, then it no on holds that view. In a natural dialog, that would be the case. But in the controlled environment, certain topics and view points are just hidden. Shadow banning is particularly insidious.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday April 13 2017, @01:27PM (1 child)
Twitter isn't scrubbing posts, people just don't understand how Twitter works. [ibtimes.com]
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday April 13 2017, @11:22PM
Love the link to Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Indy throws the Nazi out the window of the Derigabl. Everyone looks scared and confused, Indy looks at them, thumbs towards the window and says "No ticket!" and they all start frantically presenting their tickets.
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