I agree.

My argument isn’t that every event can and should build an intelligence apparatus. That would be impossible, though it would actually provide security. I agree.

My argument is that banning flipper zeros does not do anything to improve security, even if they wish it did. If they actually cared about security, it would cost them a lot more time and money. Instead, they’ve chosen theater. I don’t even have a problem with this necessarily, if it makes some people feel safer; I have a problem with anyone pretending it is security, and not theater.

When someone is given a placebo during a clinical trial, they are informed and unblinded after the trial so that they do not think they were on the actual medication; this is because otherwise, they would draw the wrong conclusion from the trial for themselves.

This is theater; that’s okay, maybe, but let’s not pretend it’s something it isn’t.

Anyway, I think we’re repeating ourselves, and I’m happy to agree to disagree.