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I guess that is the point: actions leading to a barring of entry seem to have been becoming less and less severe. Anyone knows how these no-entry lists are being compiled?

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Of course not. My goodness, next you'll be wanting to see the source code on voting machines. How can we have a proper country if we let people know how it works?

Criticism of surveillance is not any more or less severe than all kinds of other ‘Non-American behaviour’ of the past, there just happens to be a larger overlap between this instance of ‘Non-American behaviour’ and the HN demographic.

How exactly do the parents examples of being a left-wing, gay or anti-apartheid activist seem severe to you?

Also the surveillance state makes it much more obvious who is doing what, and how to block whom.

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