Customs and Border Protection has confirmed that, no, agents did not stop a Norwegian traveler who showed them a meme of a bald Vice President JD Vance.
The story circulating online — first in Norwegian newspaper Nordlys and then picked up by British tabloids — claims that during Mikkelsen’s encounter with the Department of Homeland Security, agents took his phone and found a meme depicting Vance as a bloated, smooth, bald man staring off into the distance.
Mikkelsen claims that the officials threatened to fine him $5,000 or send him to prison for five years if he refused to provide them with his phone password. The tourist ultimately agreed to hand over his information, allowing agents to look through his phone… More here.
It does not matter why he was ultimately deported, it is the guilty-first approach to checking personal information that is the problem.
THIS IS NOT A US GOVERNMENT, IT IS A REGIME.
McGST 
Free speech is only allowed if it’s their kind of free speech….
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Ya, it’s very cruel.
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And daft. Tourism is already screwed.
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