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AIN Blog: New Drone Restrictions Are Mind-bogglingly Useless
The new restrictions enacted without public comment by the FAA serve simply to assuage peoples' fears, but accomplish nothing useful.

The FAA is once again rolling over for the security-industrial complex, this time agreeing to enact without public comment new rules restricting drone flights near the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and other national landmarks. The new rules take effect October 5, whether or not they make sense.

There are two major problems with these new rules.

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Matt Thurber
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