Travel to Trump's America

TELLIT01

eskbanker said:

zagfles said:

Well that's a relief after I've been slagging off Judd Trump for losing to Selby...

I'm sure there'll be plenty of bridge players concerned about being able to freely discuss their enthusiasm for No Trump contracts

Woodstok2000 said:
So you mean he wouldn't be doing things like this?

Scientist Banned From Entering US Over Opinions About Trump—Minister - Newsweek

The relevant authorities can obviously object to prominent political critics (there was also that notorious case of the tourist with the JD Vance meme on his phone) but they can clearly already do this, rather than having to introduce a new screening process.

TELLIT01 said:

@eskbanker You have far more faith in Trump than I do.

I'm not saying that I have faith that the new process wouldn't be misused, but was simply challenging the risibly simplistic idea that it would be implemented via a text search for the word 'Trump'!

If the basic search was just on 'Trump' and looking for adverse comments it would certainly stop many from getting in to the USA.

zagfles

Woodstok2000 said:

eskbanker said:

prodigy9 said:

eskbanker said:

prodigy9 said:
Shouldn't be too hard. Not necessarily accurate but not hard. AI or a simple ctrl+f to search for Trump and go from there.

Sarcasm and satire can be tricky to discern in the written word, especially without any indicators of humour such as emojis, etc, but I'm assuming that this isn't a serious suggestion that the screening is specifically for references to Trump personally!

No I'm not being sarcastic. Why else would they be screening the social media residents of allies in the land of free speech.

Even the arch-narcissist himself wouldn't be introducing a policy like this just to find out what people are saying about him!  The stated intention of such measures is to target "those who advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to national security; or who perpetrate unlawful anti-Semitic harassment or violence" rather than those saying nasty things considered to be uncomplimentary about the occupant of the White House, so the notion that such assessments would be based around a text search for one key word really isn't a credible proposition....

So you mean he wouldn't be doing things like this?

Scientist Banned From Entering US Over Opinions About Trump—Minister - Newsweek

Yeah, it's strange how some of these clickbait articles only give half the story and don't include the dept of homeland security's response which states the issue was the scientist had confidential information on his phone: 

US denies French claims a space researcher was expelled over messages about Trump | CNN

"The French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device from Los Alamos National Laboratory — in violation of a non-disclosure agreement — something he admitted to taking without permission and attempted to conceal"