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Re:Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escap... by atmosx on Sunday November 09, 2014 @02:43PM (#8580646)
"Poitras wasn't being stopped at airports because she was an activist - she was stopped because she was under suspicion for allegedly having foreknowledge of a planned insurgent attack against US troops in Iraq and filming it from the rooftops instead of warning them."

Sure, Poitras detention had nothing to do with Snowden, Obama is a pacifist, Ukraine is in Africa, Putin is a democrat and I am Marry Poppins!!!

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Re:Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escap... by csandreasen on Sunday November 09, 2014 @02:49PM (#8580667)
Dude, check the dates - she started complaining about being stopped for questioning at airports in 2006.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_det...

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Re:Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escap... by atmosx on Sunday November 09, 2014 @07:13PM (#8581390)
Ooops, you're right. I'm not Marry Poppins, after all. Sorry for the outburst.
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