Comment by vardalab
1 month ago
Exactly! I agree about feeling free to think is important. I am a legal immigrant here on the green card, and I was randomly looking at my iCloud photos, and there were two of them where I was wearing a 2024 elections t-shirt of the losing side. The t-shirt was given to me as a gag gift, and I just had taken a picture of it to show it to the sender for giggles. Now looking at this old image. I had second thoughts. What if on the border crossing some officer sees a t-shirt and doesn't agree with it? Maybe I should delete the image. And it's not the first time I want to go post something online, but I've stopped myself. What if it comes back and bites me? Even though it might be an innocuous tweet, nothing egregious, but I just don't want to engage. And this is how freedom goes. This feels as bad as it was growing up in the Soviet Union.
You should definitely delete that image, as people have been denied entry or arrested at borders based on their social media history and pictures on their phone.
Can you ever really delete files that have been uploaded to the cloud tho?
It's enough to delete it from the places the border guard looks.
Expect your door to come crashing in any second now. I hope I am joking about this.
I hear Canada is nice though.