Just a couple of thoughts...

Looking at this woman's behavior in its totality, I can't picture her as a social revolutionary. She was a pushy, hyper, obnoxious "B" who deserved nothing less than swift kick in the rear - especially as she tried to crawl over all the other customers to get off the plane.

The electronic device ban is in effect for a few reasons - firstly, the effect of RF on aircraft systems is really unknown. Some tests have shown an effect and some have not. There is concern that some inflight incidents - namely unitiated control surface movements - might have been caused by electronic interference. Maybe, maybe not. It might seem like a pain to be without your device for a few hours, but if your 737 did a barrel roll of a sudden, you might not be so keen on everyone tapping their Blackberry's during the flight if there was a chance the RF was a contributing factor.

In addition, the FCC banned cell phone use from aircraft not for safety reasons, but because the signals being transmitted from 7 miles up were hitting multiple cell towers and causing havoc with the cell switching system - disturbing callers on the ground. I also don't think many of us would appreciate spending 5 hours on a narrow body listening to a handful of people jabbering on their cell phones at full volume. If you were trying to rest on a late evening departure to the west coast, you might not enjoy listing to your seatmate jabbering away at full volume while you're trying to sleep. Absent a cell phone ban, you would have few options to shut them up.

I support the cell phone ban - but only if the reasons behind it are communicated honestly.