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According to my dad, 9/11 pretty much changed air travel for good. Everything afterwards became extremely strict.
Yep, I flew regularly in the 90's, it was much easier and relaxed.
To be clear, 9/11 didn't change anything. Governments used 9/11 as an excuse to violate our privacy
But you know for the olympics, the government really needed the extra surveillance cameras after all wouldn't you want everyone to be safe? And who hates the sports? I mean we all love them and its good for us and it's good for the economy as well. And it will put our country on the world map, and there will be so many tourists, after all we love tourists and diversity, wouldn't that be nice?
And just imagine oh imagine if one of the terrorists got here pretending to be a tourist, and ruin everything. You wouldn't want them to ruin all the fun? Would you?
So you see the government really really needs to tighten the security by adding these surveillance cameras, and rest assured it will use all the latest technologies to help YOU be SAFE. /s
Not for good. For bad.
it did. in the 90s i was on a plane with my family and a guy sitting near us got drunk and was telling people he had a bomb in his briefcase. all that happened was that he got chewed out by the flight attendant. I could swear she said "we will turn the plane around if we have to!" it was incredibly amusing to watch as someone under 10 years old.