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Another warning about travelling to the US. Any criticism of Trump can now be qualified as terrorism when entering the US:
A French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
Via bsky.app/profile/paulecohen.bs
lemonde.fr/international/artic

Bluesky SocialPaul Cohen (@paulecohen.bsky.social)Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. A stranger in a strange century. https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen

I'd imagine this makes people working for companies that make them travel to the US consider switching jobs.

As @syb points out, Dutch government does not yet warn about these risks of travelling to the US. "No special security risk".

@Sustainable2050 de situatie lijkt zich snel te ontwikkelen. 😒
@syb

@vosje62 @Sustainable2050 @syb
Ach ja, mijn vrouw komt van het eiland Antigua.
Toen hurricane Irma daar de boel zowat volledig plat gooide (vergelijkbaar met situatie St Maarten) kwam BuZa 3 dagen later met een mailtje dat het misschien wel een goed idee zou zijn om daar even niet heen te gaan.
Uiteraard was 2 dagen vóór de storm al vrijwel zeker dat ze geraakt gingen worden.

@MennoWolff inspelen op de actuele situatie ia niet hun sterkste kant. 😇
Wat natuurrampen betreft doen meteorologen het steeds beter. Voor politieke ontwikkelingen zullen we wel afhankelijk van de politiek blijven.
@Sustainable2050 @syb

@vosje62 @MennoWolff @Sustainable2050 @syb Of course there is "no special security risk" for the only people Wilders cares about.

@martinvermeer @vosje62 @Sustainable2050 @syb
Well yeah...
Thing is, until there's evidence that NLers or Europeans are *often* illegally or unfairly detained, or other serious issues, it's not something that they would put on there. See for example China: code is yellow.
"Willekeurige arrestaties
Als buitenlander in China kunt u gearresteerd worden om onduidelijke of politieke redenen. Bijvoorbeeld omdat u wordt verdacht van spionage of het in gevaar brengen van de nationale veiligheid."

@MennoWolff @vosje62 @Sustainable2050 @syb Yes. I suspect that non-white or otherwise 'wrong' Europeans are smart enough to avoid travelling to the US now. So, no big problem.

Menno

@martinvermeer @vosje62 @Sustainable2050 @syb
Yup. Until it's clear that traveling while under the influence of melanin is a problem they will not do anything.