[huslage]

This is incorrect. There have been many documented incidents of US Citizens being detained and harassed upon US entry for what they say online. You can disagree about politics all you want, but the facts remain that USCBP has begun persecuting people for all sorts of things, both political and otherwise.

[pembrook]

They have not "begun" persecuting people for all sorts of things. Individual CBP agents have always had extreme authority relative to their position and have always had cases of denying people for extremely stupid reasons every year.

The idea that US citizens need to scrub their phones before entering the US is just a hysterical media narrative related to the drama around a certain middle east conflict right now (which I shall not mention because it will further devolve into a flame war).

I can tell you with certainty the amount of border agents who have a strong opinion about this certain middle eastern conflict is exceedingly small.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> The idea that US citizens need to scrub their phones before entering the US is just a hysterical media narrative related to the drama around a certain middle east conflict right now

This seems to imply that public discussions about cleaning phones wasn't a meaningfully common occurrence before now.

But it's been a spontaneous topic for as long as devices have been at risk from border agencies - since at least 2017.

[ranger_danger]

Does reporting on stories more often when the number of actual incidents stay the same really mean that anything is actually different besides political rhetoric?

> has begun

ICE has been arresting, detaining and exiling US citizens for at least 10 years:

https://migrantinsider.com/p/ice-has-deported-at-least-70-us...