Originally Posted by
billycorgan
Almost all of the positive scaling back changes of the screening process has been because of photography.
Does anyone honestly believe that child pat downs would have been changed (and changed again according to Pistole today) if that incident wasn't recorded.
Just like television helped the civil rights movement, cell phones and youtube has helped ours.
BINGO!
I've said this before, but we're very lucky widespread use of internet did not happen ten years later than it did. Some may recall when the news media breathlessly reported that Timothy McVeigh had an AOL account. For whatever reason, that freaked a lot of people out and there were some brief calls to Do Something About It™.