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For now. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-deporting-us-cit...
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1. Can’t walk about drinking a beer.
2. Can’t carry too much cash or it’s at risk of being confiscated.
3. Criminalization of walking. https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-crimin...
4. Pretty much have to own a car in most places.
5. Thousands of polling stations closed since the Voting Rights Act was gutted.
6. Federal politics held hostage by low population states. It’s insane that North Dakota has slightly less federal power than Texas.
7. Not even the House of Representatives has proportional representation.
It's surreal for me to see such a headline and article on a major US newspaper.
we still have freedom of speech for now at least, actual citizens do, anyway
"Locking down" is almost always a bad approach when it comes to border crossings. You have very little rights at the border, so keeping your phone locked and refusing to divulge the 20 characters password isn't really an option. Even without the threat of detaining you, they can refuse entry (if you're not a citizen/permanent resident), or seize your $1000 phone/laptop. Far better to wipe your phone and restore from…
>or seize your $1000 phone/laptop. So be it. I used to say that the reason I valued my privacy was not that I did not trust my government _today_, it was the fact that data would be available to every potential authoritarian government _tomorrow_. Welp, today has become tomorrow, and yeah, I'd _absolutely_ rather just have my devices seized than have the contents of my phone dumped into a database that can be searche…
Even if you do sue the gov't, it'll be at least a year before any kind of resolution that results in the return of that device. Them keeping my phone would be one thing, but if they also kept my laptop, I'd be screwed. My laptop is much more than $1k, and there's no free laptop with contract cell service I could use to replace it. Now I'd be without a means of working.
These kinds of situations make me really yearn for the days of replacing the internal hard drive of a laptop. I could swap out my daily use drive for a travel drive, which would be much less of a hassle than the options on offer for modern laptops.
This article is a nice reminder that free speech is awesome. Also, it is terribly unhelpful and uninformative. Schneier’s blog post on this has tons of useful information in the comments: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/cell-phone-op... The EFF wrote the canonical guide to this in 2017: https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017 . I don’t know if it has been updated, but there is a lot that’…
As a US citizen it is still a bit useful. You cannot be denied entry (CBP has told me they would deny me entry, but in the end they just threaten to revoke your passport which is also a lie). If they have decided they want to search your phone, they will tell you that you just have to answer the questions and they will let you out in time to catch your next flight or whatever. The truth is they are vicious liars, as…
> Before traveling, back up your devices so you don’t lose anything permanently. Then delete anything you’re worried about being misinterpreted or saved by the government. That can include conversations that compromise the privacy of the people on the other end. You might delete messages about politics, contact information for political dissidents, apps that save offline copies of sensitive documents like Google Docs…
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“Just don’t share opinions” is not an option for a free society. Being gagged for fear of retribution from a foreign government is not beneficial to my mental health.
Then don't travel, in many countries the penalty for disparaging the leader of that country is quite severe.
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For now. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-deporting-us-cit...
Being from Germany our history classes in school went into great depth about the countries past - and I can't help but feel increasingly scared and left utterly speechless by all the parallels I'm seeing unfolding in the US ...