As if they need another reason to not visit?
I’m gonna not-visit even harder.
no more disney dollars for florida soon.
Jokes on them. I’m never going there ever again.
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All of them are open to abuse by governments and private contractors. The main difference is that in the USA the government is a bunch of Nazis eager to do Nazi things to anyone they don’t like.
Well, they certainly do this at the border in China, though not by roving gangs of photographers. It’s part of the check-in/out process at customs.
Tell me, though, is the USA and its citizenry aspiring to become China? Or does the self-proclaimed “Land of the Free” perhaps have higher ideals they bleat out loud in spite of shit like this?
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Because Americans recoil reflexively at the word “China”. It’s a harder hit.
Also I haven’t been at an Indian, Japanese, or German airport to go through customs in nearly 30 years. I have nothing to say about how they do things now, whereas I last went through Chinese customs a few months ago.
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I have less of a problem with it when it’s done as part of customs than when it’s done by roving gangs of photographers. The latter is clearly for intimidation.
The process of entering and exiting China involved photographs and facial recognition. Same, actually, come to think of it, with Canada’s entry (but not exit to my knowledge). But the key in these situations was that it was part of an organized process.
The story here is talking about gangs of ICE types taking your photo willy-nilly at random, not as part of a process. It’s just intimidation tactics.
Totally unnecessary when there are cameras already at every border crossing.
They are intentionally choosing policies to intimidate them
Exactly. Even the Chinese aren’t this full-on authoritarian thug about it.
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