[stego-tech]

Not directly, no, but they’ll build a file for what they consider extremist views. Just look back to the Civil Rights Movement era for the list of things people said that would get them an FBI file - we have a long and storied history of surveilling anyone and everyone who says things that go against what political power desires.

That being said, I do think any cabin crew pitching a fit over such a hotspot name is absolutely in the wrong. That’s not a threat, that’s personal opinion, and it’s not the hotspot owner’s fault the crew conflates Zionist ideology specifically with Jewish Faith in general like an ignorant fool.

[alfiedotwtf]

“Free Palestine” isn’t exactly fringe. In fact, outside America and Israel, I’d bet it’s the default stance

[chimeracoder]

> “Free Palestine” isn’t exactly fringe. In fact, outside America and Israel, I’d bet it’s the default stance

That's certainly not true in many European countries

[lostlogin]

> That's certainly not true in many European countries

This suprised me. I’ve hunted for polling and can find plenty showing a plummeting opinion on Israel, but little on internal polling about a Palestinian state.

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

Polls are interesting. They depend exclusively on people willing to respond. Let me give you an example of how they don't tell the whole story:

In the USA, there are many, many firearms. And there's also a small but very vocal cadre of people who would like to disarm the people. In light of this, if a pollster calls and asks for your opinion on guns, and/or inquires if you have any, a common response is to hang up without answering the questions, due to the possibility that the information will be used against them.

The result? They call someone else, and don't count "declined to answer" in their results. So the poll simply is the prevailing opinion of those who wished to answer, and thus is skewed one direction. (BTW, this is why everyone says there are "at least XXX hundred million guns in America; the best they can get is a low estimate)

This happens quite a lot with controversial topics.

[lostlogin]

Is the person hanging up pro or anti gun rights?

I get that they aren’t counted but it’s hard to guess their stance.

Similarly, it’s always interesting to compare polls to electoral results. The correlation seems to be drifting.

[gpvos]

I'm pretty sure it is. Maybe a little less so in Germany, but even there.