Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
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Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son ordinateur et son téléphone ne soient fouillés.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58907227

“The space researcher was allegedly randomly checked on arrival, during which his professional computer and personal telephone were allegedly searched. Similarly, messages about the Trump administration’s treatment of scientists have been found.”

    • Lemmist@lemm.ee
      630·
      2 days ago

      Don’t start. You never had democracy in the first place. Yes, now it is even worse but it has never been good.

      • Shacktastic@lemy.lolEnglish
        121·
        2 days ago

        Cynicism isn’t helpful. The U.S. was a democracy and now that’s in jeopardy. To pretend that an imperfect democracy is equivalent to the electoral autocracy we seem to be headed for is disingenuous and betrays the many substantiative freedoms we enjoyed under the former.

        • magnetosphere@fedia.io
          65·
          2 days ago

          Technically, it’s a republic. In a full democracy, the citizens would vote on everything directly. You know all those bills that Congress votes on? We’d handle them ourselves.

          I could be wrong, but I don’t think a country has ever operated that way. It’s a logistical nightmare.

          Edit: if something here is factually incorrect, an actual explanation would be helpful. Thanks.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            2 days ago

            As an anarchist I would love direct democracy immeasurably more than what we currently have. You aren’t wrong. It is a republic, a Democratic Republic; that uses representative democracy. But that doesn’t argue against it being a democracy. Just not a direct democracy. Which by the fact that we have an actual name for it. Means that there are other types of democracies that aren’t direct democracies. Such as Democratic Republics.

            Like I’ve said elsewhere I’m not defending our current system it fucking sucks. But the problem with it is more that there aren’t safeguards to keep the wealthy from capturing it. And that the wealthy have captured it. It can function marginally okay without them in control. But I don’t know that that’s ever really happened in our country’s history. I’m absolutely for replacing it with something more democratic.

        • Lemmist@lemm.ee
          23·
          2 days ago

          Some shit that doesn’t represent people in any way. Just a monarchy where a monarch is substituted with a few hundred mini-kings. Especially in the USA where people never even had a right to elect those mini-kings.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            2 days ago

            That’s literally because of capture by the wealthy and powerful. Not the system itself. Yes the system doesn’t have proper safeguards against it. But you’re not criticizing the system you’re criticizing people who control it currently.