<i>He made a threat ... there should be a penalty for making joking bombing threats</i><p>Did you read the article? The author says (and I totally agree) that refraining from tasteless jokes <i>while at the airport</i> is a small price that we we pay without concern, but the freedom to make bad jokes on the internet in your spare time is something else entirely. It's the thin end of the "censorship of all speech" wedge, really.