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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Officials may ask to inspect your electronic devices, emails, text messages or social media accounts. If you refuse, they can deny your entry

Let's remember that this has been the case for years for anyone entering Australia too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Denied entry isn't a big deal. Being detained for weeks/months for criticizing the orange mobster would be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Price Ticket from Australia and another 24 hours in flight are a big deal too. Not to mention contractual obligations to perform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

In Australia they can clone your phone and hold the data indefinitely

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

Yes, but the data isn't being used to silence criticism, like in the USA. However, that just goes to show how important privacy laws are in principle, not just based on who's in power. Who's in power changes.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's no actual evidence to suggest it's being used to silence criticism in the USA either though. This woman didn't go to the USA. She didn't get denied entry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is lots of anecdotal evidence of people who have been critical of trumps on social media being denied entry, including high profile cases.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anecdotal means nothing. Most are just like this, fear mongering where it didn’t actually happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're missing the point. This anecdotal evidence is where it did happen and is verified by the media It's painting a patter of vis refusal for online criticism of Trump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The article in this topic? She never went to America! Some random unnamed lawyer said she could maybe possibly run into some trouble lol.

She didn’t get denied entry, sent back, or thrown in the gulag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah but no one gets guantanamoed for calling the PM a cunt