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France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking hell. Freedom of speech isn't a thing anymore and all those shitheads who were crying about simply being called out for saying things are fine with the government punishing people for saying things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

Hasn't been in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I seriously doubt the intelligence of anyone still traveling to the USA. I hope whatever project he is working on is not critical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

these travels are scheduled months even years in advance depending on the field of study, nobody could have predicted how much worse second Trumps term would be. also other than travelling to somewhere where its bad much more reliable indicator of low intelligence are very confident statements outside of one's own depth.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder how they search it. I doubt they manually read every fucking text message in all apps, so I guess they search for keywords or something.

So, let's say someone wanted to get someone in trouble, they could write them an email with some "incriminating" white text on white background and have them stopped by the thought police at the border.

It would be funny if they stopped some Canadian Mexican returning from Cancun and found shittalk about Trump on his phone.

Btw. Does anyone have Ted Cruz's email address?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

I have no proof, this is anecdotal, but I suspect they used a forensic analysis tool like Cellebrite, GreyKey, or Magnet Axiom to extract all the device data and search it, which makes it a cakewalk to filter for keywords, images, files, and the like. cops use this shit all the time, as do their terrorist friends all around the world.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

All countries should advise their citizens against traveling to the USA.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

It should be common sense.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 hours ago

Honestly, dude probably dodged a bullet. Stay away from our shit hole country

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