US Border Agents are requiring returning Muslim-Americans to disclose social media information

I don’t see any reason that they preclude it. A person who makes jokes instead of taking action wasn’t really going to take action anyway.

And perhaps jokes/insults themselves could constitute action. Imagine the psychological effect on Trump of a popularly shared humorous re-enactment of his alleged pee-pee party. (To be truly popular, it would probably have to avoid any genuine depiction of water-sports, of course.)

Repeat from 2009, 2011, 2012… only the social media angle is new.

No reason to let little facts like a timeline get in the way of hating Trump.

How does one go about backing up their phone in this manner? Asking for a friend :wink:

Depends on the phone, but it’s usually not difficult. There are lots of options for backups, and lots of options for encrypting the backed-up data. The EFF link in my comment has a lot of good info on the topic (the part on mobiles is lower down on the page).

One thing I would suggest is to restore an innocuous but polluted “border-friendly” backup after wiping the phone of the everyday stuff. If things continue as they are for a few years, eventually having a blank phone will cause more problems than it solves if it’s searched. I don’t have Facebook or Twitter, but I’ve been thinking of setting up a dummy Facebook account for this purpose.

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Great, thanks!

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