Are you going to the USA? Just make sure you've not said anything nasty about Trump or your phone might get searched and you won't be allowed in

You agree they ask you for your social media details on the ESTA form.

Why do they ask for that?

You agree that they have the right to search your mobile devices when you want to enter the USA?

So if you had messages on your phone that were anti Trump and you were quite vocal on your social media about Trump - do you think that could cause a problem at border control?

Wait till you find out that any country can actually deport you for comments against their leader or government :O

The responses to this are ridiculous.

There is clearly far more to this story than the edit are telling us. And let’s be honest here, people always claim they’ve done nothing wrong.

Customs aren’t stopping random tourists and asking to check their phones and anyone who has called trump a twat is being deported. For this man’s phone to have been checked he clearly already raised red flags and was found to have messages which amount to terrorism. Funny how the media haven’t published them to prove just how easily someone going to disneyworld is going to be deported. That’s because there are more to the messages than we’re being told.

As for all the hysteria over going to America, I absolutely wouldn’t want to live there, my DS’ GF is American and I absolutely don’t want him to live there either. But this notion of boycotting a country because you don’t like Trump is ridiculous. The man is a moron, but he and his cronies are likely to be in charge now for the foreseeable. And America is America. It’s not like the foreign office is advising people not to travel. The media are doing a good job of whipping up hysteria though.

I wonder how Americans genuinely feel knowing they now live under a fascist regime?

This is a senior French researcher btw. It is not impossible he was up to no good but it would be like an Oxford don turning out to be a terrorist, highly unlikely.

They can take your phone and ask for the password and the codes and for access to your SM and passwords at entry points to USA.
You can refuse, within reason, but you might find yourself on the way straight back home with a no fly marker on your passport for any return to the USA.
behold the land of freedom.

And then sell your story to the Daily Mail with a sad face .

Almost worth the price of the flights?

I despise the President and live in the U.S. but there has to be more to this story than they just randomly searched his phone, he must have been somehow flagged for something. If you have ever flown into the U.S. there are barely enough people to even check passports let alone look through peoples phones and understand things that I am assuming were in another language. Concerning nonetheless but I do suspect a lot of these things have always happened we are just getting a lot of press coverage because of Trump’s crackdowns. The UK travel warning basically just says follow the rules so it isn’t like they are telling people not to travel

They can take your phone and ask for the password and the codes and for access to your SM and passwords at entry points to USA.
You can refuse, within reason, but you might find yourself on the way straight back home with a no fly marker on your passport for any return to the USA.
behold the land of freedom.

Terrorism is defined as using violence to change h to he fabric of society.

The responses to this are ridiculous.

There is clearly far more to this story than the edit are telling us. And let’s be honest here, people always claim they’ve done nothing wrong.

Customs aren’t stopping random tourists and asking to check their phones and anyone who has called trump a twat is being deported. For this man’s phone to have been checked he clearly already raised red flags and was found to have messages which amount to terrorism. Funny how the media haven’t published them to prove just how easily someone going to disneyworld is going to be deported. That’s because there are more to the messages than we’re being told.

As for all the hysteria over going to America, I absolutely wouldn’t want to live there, my DS’ GF is American and I absolutely don’t want him to live there either. But this notion of boycotting a country because you don’t like Trump is ridiculous. The man is a moron, but he and his cronies are likely to be in charge now for the foreseeable. And America is America. It’s not like the foreign office is advising people not to travel. The media are doing a good job of whipping up hysteria though.

The US can no longer be relied upon to have any diplomatic leverage in relation to the UK, or anywhere else it seems. If you end up inadvertently on the wrong aide of the law while.on holiday ....well dont expect any special favours. They can easily access your social media and if you are not a trump supporter you're toast.

If "express hatred toward Trump" can qualify as terrorism, then then it's not safe for someone who expressed hatred of Trump to travel there - not least given that there now seem to be a pattern of foreign nationals (even US greencard holders) being detained (quite possibly unlawfully) by ICE.