Travel advisory to NZ citizens Traveling to the US
Don’t take your phone with you, buy a burner when you get there.
And if you have ever typed anything critical of US President Donald Trump, leave your laptop at home as well, you can always access your email account and documents saved on the cloud.
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
….A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration….
“I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde.
“This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added……
“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said….
‘Thought Crime’ becomes a reality in the US
George Orwell’s eponymous fictional hero Winston Smith recorded his thoughts in a diary.
Orwell didn’t predict that one day there would be laptops and smart phones and other digital devices for recording your thoughts.
But George Orwell did predict a society where putting your thoughts in a diary could be searched by the authorities, and be evidence of committing a ‘thought crime’, and be punished for it.
Pat O’Dea is a staunch unionist and activist
Thought crime has been a reality everywhere, for ever.
That’s what the CIA, SIS, NSI etc were designed to monitor.
This is not thought crime. This is just modern day surveillance in action. In today’s world where the State primarily serves big money interests, typically at the expense of voters, calling out or criticizing this reality puts you on a fast track to pariah status and much much more thereafter. Corruption needs mechanisms to keep resistance to it, at bay. And the longer this continues then the more sophisticated these mechanisms of control need to be.
“This is not thought crime.” AO
Whatever it is, I can’t imagine anyone being prevented entering New Zealand. let alone a scientist, because NZ customs found a critical comment of Prime Minister Luxon on their laptop.
It all starts in the US and branches out from there….there’s our future, assuming that it hasn’t already happened here.
‘I committed a speech crime in mentionimng Britain’
No that is a spelling crime by a dick too fucking lazy to check what it writes.