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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] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Welcome to Trumps America.

Where everything that Trump doesnt like, or is legitimately critical of him, or is just an opinion that Republicans don't like.. is Terrorism.

Seems an awful lot like that oppressive government tyranny the ammosexuals were feverishly polishing their rifle barrels to, doesnt it? I wonder why they are all so suspiciously silent! /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

"Freedom of speech."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

The USA has no place criticising the actions of other countries. Never has.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week 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] 10 points 1 week ago (3 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] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You sound like an internet addict who never lived real life. What the hell is with this logic?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

These types of things are usually scheduled well in advance. Just one example, it is worth noting that I am not saying that this was the reason the scientist traveled to the United States, scientific centers with certain types of very expensive equipment usually rent it to projects from other scientific institutes and universities, sometimes with such high demand that you can wait years for it to be available for your project.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

more reliable indicator of low intelligence

I would add inability to use proper punctuation to that criteria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

*those criteria, criterion being singular.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 12 points 1 week 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] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

All countries should advise their citizens against travelling to the USA. Edit: fixed typo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It should be common sense.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago

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

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