Most charitable reading is there is a credible threat of assembling a bomb out of lithium ion + laptop components—requiring universal ban.
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Also, a kindle e-reader has a 750 mAh battery. An iPhone 7s Plus has a 2900 mAh battery. The former is banned, the latter is not.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted digging around in the HTML
A very good question. As worded, you can carry those on... One of those can be two iPads, each of which are banned.https://twitter.com/jeremyzimmer/status/844218250963517440 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted tyalne haller
UK version bans by dimension, not battery—bans e-readers with tiny batteries; allows phones with big batteries.https://twitter.com/enlayt/status/844226687596445696 …
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Also, UK is banning Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. Why not Qatar, Dubai, UAE like US? Threat or not?
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Again would argue for a universal ban. http://news.sky.com/story/electronic-devices-ban-on-some-uk-bound-flights-10809743 …pic.twitter.com/gFzumvxEOd
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Blunt intimidation of certain states via their airlines. Exact purpose unclear. But will hit journalists, activists not terrorists.
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US is intimidating Qatar that hosts the fifth fleet? Saudis with whom they are bombing Yemen? Jordan, their very close ally?
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You're right. It's weird. But we just don't know what's going on here. It doesn't make sense given what we know.
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The difference between the US and UK list don't make much immediate sense either. As you said it's neither threat-based nor generic.
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Canada may join too, it seems.
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