Are visitors to the US now required to produce their phone and password to allow immigration to look at messages?<p>It's been a very long time (1972) since I traveled outside the US, so I'm obviously not up to speed on international travel, but I am really surprised that people are not permitted to cross international boundaries without producing a phone for inspection.
I’m seeing a way larger than usual amount of political posts making the HN frontpage without flagging.<p>I’m not complaining, to be clear. As a non American, I wonder if it signals a shift in thinking from the users?
I would be interested in knowing to what extent the HN back history shows evidence of webscraping, and to what extent there is evidence this social network (because it is one) is feeding the same information space that US Customs and Immigration use to determine who to pull out of the line.
I guess I'll need a burner phone when traveling to the US in the near future. Just as a lot of people do when visiting China. What a turn of events!
I remember when the Republican party at least pretended to have some sympathy along the lines of libertarianism.<p>It is pretty clear now they want to use the state to impose / punish what they deem "wrong" thinking / ideas.