CBP Is Deporting Cruise Ship Crew over CSAM Allegations Without Evidence

jMyles | 45 points

Not to be glib, but most fascist foot soldiers are convinced (via years of propaganda) that they are getting rid of criminals and corrupt citizens.

These CBP officers who’re making up evidence for innocent legal/documented immigrants, what are they thinking? Or is there some kind of central source making up digital evidence?

pj_mukh | 19 hours ago

When/if the war on drugs finally ends this will be the next tool. It's such a radioactive topic that no one wants to point out the obvious ease with which information possession laws can be used to frame innocents.

mothballed | 19 hours ago

What I think is happening here based on the few details: Facebook regularly suspends accounts for posting pictures of naked kids, particularly in countries which do not have strong taboos against that. These get reported and sit in a government database with little more information than "Maria Santos from the Philippines posted CP." Then any time a Maria Santos from the Philippines arrives, they get flagged. If it's a common name, lots of people get flagged. This incompetence is the only way I can explain 10% of crew members getting flagged without intentional fraud by the government.

synarchefriend | 15 hours ago

Everyone who was voting for trump because IlLeGaLs was made aware that this administration is fascist and doesn't care about criminals - they only care about appearance of doing something - even if it harms legal innocents.

Yet, people voted for trump. As much as it hurts to say this, America is truly a fallen country as evidenced by the hateful people.

nine_zeros | 17 hours ago

I fear that random arrests and detentions under the guise of bogus "suspicion", no matter how baseless, will be continually turbocharged and weaponized for political purposes, as there doesn't seem to be a good way for most citizens to fight back in a meaningful way. And the fact that it causes irreparable damage to the victims, and often no penalty for the authorities, is really a tragedy in my opinion.

ranger_danger | 19 hours ago

just remember that the trump epstien clinton crowd employes( has employed) countless imigrants as menial service labourers and staff at all of there fancy fully catered and staffed luxo dedautchurey palaces, who might have recieved large tips to not have seen things, 8f you hav3 been around, then you know people who were there, drove the cars flew the jets, or perhaps got even closer for a while....before working on a cruise ship....say

metalman | 17 hours ago

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stefantalpalaru | 16 hours ago