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Re:Pardon Snowden by kyledrake on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @08:37AM (#12496197)
Okay, not to break up the tinfoil hat party here, but you're not going to get dragged off to US prison for following Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Icelandic, not Swedish) on Twitter.
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Re:Pardon Snowden by jellicle on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:07AM (#12496436)
The U.S. border security has been monitoring social media for years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/us-custom...

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Re:Pardon Snowden by kyledrake on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:03AM (#12496929)
Yeah, if you post threats on your Twitter account immediately before visiting a country that could be an issue. So don't do that. Threats against persons or property are reasonable things for public officials to be concerned about.

I repeat: you're not going to get dragged off to US prison for following Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Twitter.

I strongly agree that Ed should be pardoned and that the US government has a lot of problems (like any country), but let's not go completely overboard here and write off the entire country as North Korea meets McCarthyism with a heaping side of Turkey. You can't and won't be prosecuted here for having a political opinion or for following people that do on Twitter.

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Re:Pardon Snowden by atmosx on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:09PM (#12500259)
If I had the slightest hint that I will be prosecuted or go to prison,I would never risk traveling in the US. I am not a person of interest by any means for any gov.

I was referring to a possible detention in the borders, stripping, electronic devices control and so forth.

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