I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US

Re:I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting... by pembrook on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:22PM (#44638584)

They have not "begun" persecuting people for all sorts of things. Individual CBP agents have always had extreme authority relative to their position and have always had cases of denying people for extremely stupid reasons every year.

The idea that US citizens need to scrub their phones before entering the US is just a hysterical media narrative related to the drama around a certain middle east conflict right now (which I shall not mention because it will further devolve into a flame war).

I can tell you with certainty the amount of border agents who have a strong opinion about this certain middle eastern conflict is exceedingly small.

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Re:I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:34PM (#44638742)

> The idea that US citizens need to scrub their phones before entering the US is just a hysterical media narrative related to the drama around a certain middle east conflict right now

This seems to imply that public discussions about cleaning phones wasn't a meaningfully common occurrence before now.

But it's been a spontaneous topic for as long as devices have been at risk from border agencies - since at least 2017.

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