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United States: French researcher turned back for expressing “personal opinion on Trump administration’s policy (www.lemonde.fr)
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“The space researcher was allegedly randomly checked on arrival, during which his professional computer and personal telephone were allegedly searched. Similarly, messages about the Trump administration’s treatment of scientists have been found.”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Idk, but the root cause of this situation is the fact that border agencies have been allowed to just get access to everyone's personal devices. If you encrypt them, they wont let you enter. If you wipe them, they wont let you enter. The devastating consequences of these invasive rules have been predicted for decades and now we see that those predictions were spot on. If you give governments the tools to be authoritarian dictatorships, they will eventually use them.