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A Vancouver man was denied entry into the United States after a US Customs and Border Patrol officer read his profiles on the gay hookup app Scruff and the website BBRT.
[...] André, a 30-year-old Vancouver set decorator who declined to give his full name for fear of retaliation from US Customs, describes the experience as "humiliating."[He] says he was planning to visit his boyfriend, who was working in New Orleans. But when he was going through Customs preclearance at Vancouver airport last October, he was selected for secondary inspection, where an officer took his phone, computer and other possessions, and demanded the passwords for his devices.
"I didn't know what to do. I was scared, so I gave them the password and then I sat there for at least an hour or two. I missed my flight," André says. "He came back and just started grilling me. 'Is this your email?' and it was an email attached to a Craigslist account for sex ads. He asked me, 'Is this your account on Scruff? Is this you on BBRT?' I was like, 'Yes, this is me.'"
[...] "I could tell just by his nature that he had no intentions of letting me through. They were just going to keep asking me questions looking for something," he says. "So I asked for the interrogation to stop. I asked if I go back to Canada am I barred for life? He said no, so I accepted that offer."
A month later, André attempted to fly to New Orleans again. This time, he brought what he thought was ample proof that he was not a sex worker: letters from his employer, pay stubs, bank statements, a lease agreement and phone contracts to prove he intended to return to Canada.
When he went through secondary inspection at Vancouver airport, US Customs officers didn't even need to ask for his passwords — they were saved in their own system. But André had wiped his phone of sex apps, browser history and messages, thinking that would dispel any suggestion he was looking for sex work. Instead, the border officers took that as suspicious.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @07:07AM (14 children)
Try again.
(Score: 1) by charon on Monday February 27 2017, @08:30AM (7 children)
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That was a good one.
So, when are you libertarians going to move to Galt's Gulch anyway? Drop me a line to let me know which billionaire volunteers to wash the dishes after dinner.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 27 2017, @08:55AM (6 children)
Even poor people have dishwasher machines, charon.
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday February 27 2017, @11:42AM (1 child)
Ok, but who cleared the table and filled the dishwasher?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Monday February 27 2017, @01:04PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @01:17PM (1 child)
Source. [bash.org]
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday February 27 2017, @09:18PM
So about half of everything you own, then?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @04:21PM (1 child)
> Even poor people have dishwasher machines
What? In the US? Not a chance.
Sure, some poor people do.
But many, probably a majority, do not.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 27 2017, @06:47PM
Even (implicit "some") poor people have dishwasher machines (therefore a billionaire can afford them).
That was hard!
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @11:05AM (5 children)
A warlord is government
And there's the huge elephant in the room that people like you ignore or don't see:
Once there's enough people around you're going to get some form of government anyway. Whether you like it or not.
So if you're not suggesting that everyone live alone on their own island or similar you should be thinking of ways to get a better government.
Too many retards keep barking up the wrong tree railing against Big Government and trying to get a smaller government as if it would help.
It's not the quantity of Government that makes it good or bad, it's the quality. You'd be screwed just as much if not more by a small corrupt government in league with large corrupt organizations. There's no right to bear arms in Disneyland. The FOIA does not apply to Apple or Monsanto. CorporateLand might not even pretend you have freedom of speech.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @01:56PM (4 children)
The problem is always that there is a monopoly, one that is violently imposed. This is a cultural problem; the worship of such a monopoly is a vestige of humanity's ancient, barbaric, tribal, superstitious, uncivilized origins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @03:44PM (2 children)
Ugh, that's all you've got? After all the discussion it still boils down to "violently imposed monopoly" of the government?
Government is actually the single most important aspect of civilization. The laws against murder, and the ability to enforce those laws, are actually the only thing stopping humanity's vestigial barbarism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @05:00PM (1 child)
Governments don't STOP much of anything. They START a lot of mass-murder, also known as war.
Try looking up Warren vs D.C. sometime. Governments not only don't care about YOU or YOUR safety, they've explicitly said so. That you seem to believe otherwise is a lie you've swallowed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @05:10PM
Governments are men; they are not angels. Governments are warlords. Men are warlords. Men are neither angels nor governed by angels. Does that help?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @05:07PM
You always become so boring. You haven't given us enough to help us see how men would become angels so that they do not impose their wills on one another through violence.
The best solution we've come up with is the one big warlord, that violently imposed monopoly. Violence cannot be removed, which is our stumbling block. Perhaps humans are not evolved enough. (Again, assuming humans might evolve into angels.)