Originally Posted by
chollie
Usually, AskTSA is a good indicator of what TSA is doing even when TSA is denying it. (This is not the only forum where TSA is discussed) Why do women keep asking about knitting needles? Because knitters talk to each other, and TSOs do confiscate knitting needles and crochet hooks if they feel like it. People ask about cupcakes and light sabers and Harry Potter wands because all of those items are regularly confiscated and have made the news.
That's a good point. I'm really surprised they don't censor half of the posts people make. It could be that:
1. They rely upon the short-term nature of Twitter and simply know that the problems will go away in just a few hours;
2. They are conditioning the public that all of this is "normal" and that the public should expect to be harassed and have things confiscated because it's about terrorists.
Remember how West, Blogdad Bob and the other <deleted> used to go out of their way to correct somebody who accused the TSA of "confiscating" something? They used to regularly roll out the "voluntarily surrender" line. When was the last time anybody read this rebuke? They no longer state that they don't "confiscate."