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Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by anon291 » Mon, Apr 14, 2025, 9:24 PM UTC

lern_too_spel wrote: post #310

anon291 wrote: post #306

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Americans really like to criticize America and have no idea how things are in other countries

These Americans understand that they can change the laws in their own country but not in others.

Right, that's of course totally fair and valid. However, what the USA is doing is hardly odd. Most countries do this. In general, constitutional rights obviously don't apply at the border. Whether you like it or not, there has never been a requirement for a warrant for a border inspection. Imagine how inefficient that would be.

Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by root_axis » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 1:06 AM UTC

aeternum wrote: post #270

root_axis wrote: post #229

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Why do you say it's fearmongering? There have already been several examples of it in recent months. Here's one example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

DHS claims he admitted to having confidential info from Los Alamos that violated an NDA https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1902881013220385220 It also sounds like the guy was actively and openly trying to convince researchers to leave the US for France. May have even been the purpose of the trip. Free speech is one thing, extending a visa to foreign individuals that are actively working against the country's interests i…

I looked online to verify the claims stated therein and couldn't. Do you have any sources beyond a random tweet?

Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by po26511 » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 8:23 AM UTC

Clamchop wrote: post #263

timewizard wrote: post #241

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How does a country "consider itself?" I mean, I get that the propaganda mouthpieces push this message, but that's not quite the same thing. Meanwhile there are very few countries that don't have the same type of border security that we do for foreign nationals. This advice is just as pertinent if you travel to the UK or almost any EU country.

Us Americans have been taught exceptionalism all our lives. The people consider themselves to have built and to live in the freest and generally most superlative country that ever was. We were pretty "soft" (dislike the term) on the land borders and on immigration. Fairly easy to enter, to claim asylum, to live and work on different sides, and so on. I don't have an answer for the question of if we should be making o…

> We're exceptional, right?

Yup, and that pushes a nationalistic agenda even if not intentional. We're exceptional, so everyone else is mediocre and such border policies don't seem that strange? IMO a historical example of where being exceptional led us is the Trail of Tears.

Moving in the direction away from exceptionalism and more towards doing as other countries do is a simpler story toward reaching cooperation / peace than the alternative. Since if you don't, then you have to force your ideals on others, or every conversation just ends with "but we're exceptional and you aren't".