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You're not on a Government watch list.

Start working on Tor, LavaBit, Wikileaks or any other technology initiative the Government sees as a risk, and see what happens. Alternatively you could also start acting as a publisher of leaked Government documents.



Or have a name similar to someone who does. Or be selected accidentally because a DBA didn't account for an OBOE in a query.


What's an OBOE?


A double reed woodwind musical instrument.


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Wasn't Tor a US government funded project?

>"The Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau" >"As of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2 million annual budget came from the United States government, with the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation as major contributors" [from wikipedia]

If you are in the US State Dept. and were associated with Tor do you get stopped at the border because of that?


And in MAGA land, probably many other thought crimes. Like, going to a women's rights march.



You've got it wrong; it's the regressive left who convicts people of thought time. In "MAGA land", you're free to piss the left off in defiance of their byzantine schemes of political correctness.


CBP are known to be resoundingly pro-Trump. It was a great example of perverting their authority to discriminate against views they don't like.

The next step will be to mark NGOs as having 'foreign influence'. Pretty soon RT'ing Amnesty International or the EFF will exclude you from government or sub-contractor employment. Just look at what happens in Russia.


What about some of the interesting domain names in the list featured on his website ? Some might tip off someone in a federal agency to have a look on the guy.




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