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The United States is such a shithole country lol
No one should travel there.
Um excuse me, who else can defend peace and freedom and democracy? They make all the best weapons!
Somebody invite the Trisolarans
Waiting for season 2
Pfff we'll just sanction them into surrender. Works very well, right?
China makes some pretty good rail guns, im told.
All my plans involving the US have been canceled for the foreseeable future. Fuck that place and Russia too.
Same thing i asked the other guy who posted this.
Do you have a source that isn’t a tabloid? The only other sources i found were other tabloids.
I’m sure horrible shit is happening but tabloids aren't news. They are meant to get an emotional reaction via mistruths and exaggeration. And you having a one day old account makes this even more suspect.
Well the CPB claims it was for drug use, but I don't trust them
Though it DOES indicate that there is more to the story than just tabloid bait
US is China now.
what are we, a bunch of asians?
I have never had my phone searched for memes (or at all, for that matter) when entering China.
That's a paddlin'
Our leaders are NOT Snowflakes or Emotional!
Or else!
This not only has been going on awhile, it's worse than it sounds.
A French scientist was denied entry at the border earlier this year, in March, after officers unearthed messages criticising Trump on his phone.
Mikkelsen explained: "They threatened me with a minimum fine of $5,000 or five years in prison if I refused to provide the password to my phone."
Any idea if these threats are actionable? He's not a US citizen to just fine or imprison.
They have "deported" dozens of US citizens at this point. Usually, being a non-citizen makes you more vulnerable to arbitrary bullshit at the border, whereas if you're a citizen you can stand up much more so for your rights if they're trying to push you into something illegal, but as of this year it's starting to matter less and less.
Everything is actionable once the rule of law collapses. At this point, if you're crossing the border, you're in danger of whatever they want to do to you.
i think this is a concept that a lot of people are having a hard time grasping: laws are meaningless if no one enforces them. this 100% applies both to laws meant to protect you, AND laws meant to punish those who are harming you
On the other hand his actions are not regulated by law or by any clearly formulated code of behaviour. In Oceania there is no law. Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.
-1984
There's neither even a rhyme nor reason to Trump's fascism (or to fascism in general). But it does correlate with the observation that they are fantasists. They do things out of whim and emotions, disregarding expert advice and opinions. Any promulgation of fascism will eventually lead to its own downfall, because they live in a fantasy world where they believe that their will alone could shape reality; ignoring the basic common sense that reality could never be altered to one's desires.
How do you put someone in prison who has not entered your country yet?
And I thought it was already ruled that they can't hold someone for that long just for not giving up a password at the border?
Please be satire, please be satire...
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...Oh, fuck.
Sorry for the mediocre source, but it looks like it got its facts and translation right.
Do they have the right to search your phone ?
Yes, of course they have. Without you being present, even.
If it can be unlocked through biometrics yes, according to SCOTUS
ALWAYS use a passcode, you cannot be compelled to divulge those
you cannot be compelled to divulge those
They can deny entry.
Even for US citizens, they could still detain you for 48 hours, seize all belongings, and put you on a no-fly list.
They always had. The US border has this special exemption to the constitution that some of the normal protections don't apply.
If you are a citizen, they (legally speaking) can't deny you entry, but can jail (detain) you for 48 hours and seize all your belongings, and put your on a no-fly list if they wanted to.
If you are not a citizen, they could deny you entry on top of all that.
This was always the case in previous administrations, its just that in previous administration, they weren't this insane.
This can't be true because conservatives always cry about free speech.
If this is true then that means conservatives are massive hypocritical assholes.
Mads Mikkelsen
Magas hate freedom
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Stay out of that shithole. Nobody should be giving the US tourist dollars