He claims he was then strip-searched, forced to give blood samples, a facial scan and fingerprints.
Imagine having your biometrics taken and your blood forcibly siphoned by state-backed goons with guns for a meme.
Heads need to roll.
imagine going on holiday in a country where they check your phone for memes
seeing the grand canyon seems cool but it can wait until that lunatic and his friends are gone
seeing the grand canyon seems cool Seen it several times since I used to live a couple hours away. Ultimately, it's just a giant hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere. Save your money and your sanity by visiting some other country.
Keep in mind that TSA searching peoples' phones was already policy under the last few administrations. Which is part of why I wasnt interested in traveling there even before the lunatic.
I've been avoiding travel to the US since the Patriot Act that followed 9/11 started that kind of shit and more in general the US started moving away from Democracy and into Autocracy.
Last time I felt like traveling to the North American continent I just went to Canada instead for a whole month - sea kayaking in British Columbia, hiking in the Canadian Rockies, sightseeing in Quebec . Highly recommended by the way.
That should be against privacy laws in some countries and considering you can sue people from outside the US into the US court because of US rules it would make sense to have it the same with that human rights form one country exist in other countries. Sadly the world isn't built ontop of logic.
It’s also a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment.
Within 100 miles of the border there is a warrantless search exception, but I hear you.
The problem is that the Constitution doesn’t have a “except within 100 miles of a border” clause.
The lawlessness and corruption in the US is incredible.
If only there were politicians that upheld the Constitution
Absolutely!
I have family in the US. Uncles and aunts and cousins. One of my cousins have a child who I've never met. I would love to meet them all.
But there is no way I'm going to the states in the current condition. And even if the administration would be replaced, I think it would take years for the states to recover to the point where I would visit.
I thought this was the onion but its real... :)
It seems the mentality of the United States rulership have shifted back to the dark ages.
I wonder if accusing people of being witches is next.
"Land of the free"
"Freedom" just means "thing the fascist US government supports" when they say it. Fascists always co-opt the names of popular concepts and use them to try to legitimize themselves. "Wrapped in the American flag and carrying a cross."
nazis are snowflakes
If you aren't prepared to beat up a US diplomat in retribution for ill treatment received in their land, simply don't travel to the US - because they don't currently have rule of law there.
I would advise to wait a long time. If things improve, the US might be possible to visit - maybe in 5 years. If things don't improve, there's nothing irreplaceable there - visiting some other place seems wiser.
Just get a burner to travel. Quit bringing your phones here.
Better yet, don't go at all. Go to a country that's still a democracy.
I refused to travel to the US in the last Trump administration. I'm certainly not going to do it in this one.
As someone else pointed out in another comment on this thread, US border guards have been searching through phones over multiple administrations now. I'm guessing probably since the advent of smartphones.
Agreed. It's not safe for anyone at this point.
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!
JD Vance meme
No, that’s just how he looks.
Our leaders are NOT Snowflakes or Emotional!
Or else!
See - this is the thing with people going on about how its so oppressive in countries outside of "The West" where they will arrest people for insulting their king on Facebook or some shit.
We are no better. I'm not American but Britain does the same kind of shit. Read some declassified police case files, the cops pick on weird shit on people's phones.
I've been in Britain before, they didn't check my phone
And this is just for insulting the king's jester.
Lets teach that uneducated moron Vance the Streisand effect.
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
This can't be true because conservatives always cry about free speech.
If this is true then that means conservatives are massive hypocritical assholes.
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.
It was reported first by Nordlys, a local newspaper based in Tromsø, and then picked up by ofher Norwegian media. The story is most likely true.
US is China now.
I have never had my phone searched for memes (or at all, for that matter) when entering China.
not reading that. lemmy devs, please get on blocking "news" sources in the vein of sun, nypost, etc.
edit: I don't mean the mods should ban domains. I want the option to not show submissions from certain domains, like the ones I mentioned, as there's zero chance I'd ever read anything from them. a buncha reddit (and lemmy) clients have that option.
You mean implementing a functionality with which users can block posts from certain URLs to show up on their feeds?
god i wish we had a lemmy/piefed enhancement suit with the filter module :(
Please be satire, please be satire...
reads
...Oh, fuck.
But, but Elon told me comedy was legal now!
Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.
PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.