Richard Carlson, a former Voice of America director, former CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and father of Tucker Carlson, has died at 84
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlsons-dad-veteran-journalist-dick-carlson-dies-at-84/
A U.S. House subcommittee has called the chief executives of the nation's two largest public broadcasters to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with an eye to wiping out the federal funding their institutions receive.
@LorenzMeyer Jain.
Ja, wer #GAFAMs und deren Services sowie Produkte nutzt hat ohnehin verkackt!
Nein, weil das ist nichts neues und ich habe in der Vergangenheit schon öfters Leute entsprechend ausgestattet damit diese glaubhaft kooperativ durchkamen...
Details kann ich hier aber nicht benennen, nur soviel sei gesagt:
#CPB und andere #US-Behörden können nur beschlagnahmen was an Daten auf Geräten vorhanden ist!
@dshan @SrRochardBunson The official “#border zone” in the US is 100 miles from the border— which includes airports with international flights (ports of entry). #ICE and #CPB have broad discretion within this zone and routinely get away with actions that ordinarily police would not.
Picture: map of US border zone showing cities that are inside. Excludes airports that are also international points of entry
@jeffjarvis since #CPB can deny entry at will with no recourse even with a valid visa, I'd never do that!
@Mik3y @samhainnight @karlauerbach @alex_p_roe @Nonilex not to mention all the #GAFAMs and #TechBros who get to know that #CloudAct means they'll have to integrate more #Govware #Backdors and enable #BulkSurveillance or get shut down & jailed faster than they can say #EncroChat or #SkyECC...
@markmccaughrean they don't even need to take your phone - they get all the messages [even before #CloudAct] by #StasiBook directly, and then deny entry on the spot.
This is beyond…
#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
@Sustainable2050 they have already been used in the past, including private messages, as #NSAbook / #StasiBook does forward them automatically to #ICE & #CPB.
Refusal to decrypt storage and provide access to accounts can lead to being rejected at the border and being denied entry with no appeal possible!
Tough, but fair.
Mankiewicz regarded Rockefeller as an uptight snob. She “didn’t care about radio,” he said later, adding that she was overly enamored of more glamorous public television. Rockefeller regarded Mankiewicz as a Hollywood blowhard. When she backed increasing the broadcast time of a favorite PBS news show, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, from a half hour to an hour, the NPR chief, in a comment mocking what he regarded as the show’s self-importance, cracked, “I thought it already was an hour.”
https://current.org/2025/03/how-npr-escaped-a-financial-crisis-with-help-from-friends-in-high-places/
@RYStorm #FunFact: neith a #Visa nor #ESTA are legally binding towards the #CPB officers.
This alone is a reason why I'd not enter tue #USA, because they are know th actually flex it against trabelers who did nothing wrong!
Burke was "detained" by ICE at the CAN border.
"This is the 3rd prominent case of CBP & ICE getting unusually & unnecessarily aggressive with foreign tourists, refusing to take the common sense approach."
-A Reichlin Melnick
"Becky has been caught up in the recent #immigration crackdown in the US. What was meant to be a life-changing 4-month backpacking trip has turned into a nightmare."
CBP & ICE are targeting non-criminals.
No #DueProcess #Detention #ICE #CPB #USPol https://bleedingcool.com/comics/british-comic-creator-r-e-burke-detained-by-ice-after-crossing-border/
@gleick sadly this isn't new.
According to @AuswaertigesAmt, the #USA is the only nation known (only 2 have it in the books: USA & Japan) where having even a #Visa does not guarantee border control lets one enter and it's in the sole discretion of said #CPB agent if and for how long they allow.entry with 0 recourse or option to appeal against it.
DHS prepares to fire 100s of snr ldrs.
Career employees at high levels of may be removed from agencies to remove employees *admin sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump admin.
#DHS, incl: #CPB #ICE, is the primary agency tasked with enforcing #immigration law. Trump has relied heavily on CBP to secure the border & #deportations of undoc. #immigrants.
As if CPB/ICE aren't abusive enough already. *CBP no longer uses body cams.
#Abuse #Cruelty #USPol
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/department-of-homeland-security-preparing-to-fire-hundreds-of-senior-leaders-this-week.html
@rvs @joelle given that U.S. citizens get their passports confiscated for not having their "Assigned Gender At Birth" on [1] [2], I'd be even more reluctant.
The USA and Japan are the only nations that have it in their books, yet the USA are the only notorious for doing so regularly...
Brace yourselves
The #fraud levels are increasing under the sheer grift of things in #USA
#Watchdogs removal #CPB #EEO
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