Re US government starts asking foreign travelers to disclose their social media accounts

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
> Date: December 26, 2016 at 9:51:23 AM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re US government starts asking foreign travelers to disclose their social media accounts
>
> (for IP, if you wish)
>
> > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:16:49PM -0500, Herb Lin wrote:
> > What is to prevent a would-be terrorist from creating a second social
> > media account that is scrubbed to be innocuous and providing the name
> > of that account to CBP authorities?
>
> What is to prevent someone from creating a social media account in
> another person's name -- so that it will be the first hit in the results of
> even a perfunctory search -- and loading it up with incriminating material?
>
> Thus leading to: (1) "You lied to us about not having an account..."
> followed by (2) "...and it's full of terrorist material" and subsequently
> (3) detention, interrogation, etc.
>
> Cardinal Richelieu anticipated this form of security theater a long time ago:
>
>    Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête
>    homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.  (If one would
>    give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man,
>    I would find something in them to have him hanged.)
>
> ----rsk



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