Security News > 2020 > March > TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater

Passengers will now be allowed to travel with containers of liquid hand sanitizer up to 12 ounces.

The agency cautioned that the shift could mean slightly longer waits at checkpoint because the containers may have to be screened separately when going through security.

The TSA can declare this rule change because the limit was always arbitrary, just one of the countless rituals of security theater to which air passengers are subjected every day.

Flights are no more dangerous today, with the hand sanitizer, than yesterday, and if the TSA allowed you to bring 12 ounces of shampoo on a flight tomorrow, flights would be no more dangerous then.

The ease with which the TSA can toss it aside makes that clear.

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