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This reads like an article about a journalist in China ten years ago.

Your experience, and others, explain this in The Age. "A new survey released by the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney showed that 72 per cent of respondents said they didn’t trust Trump to act responsibly in global affairs, just edging out the 71 per cent who said they didn’t trust China’s Xi."

Free speech….? Not in America.

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I’m so sorry. I hope you come back someday when we’re not in this mess. Please keep writing about what’s happening here and about what happened to you. 💗

Fucking fascists. I hope you are doing well and are able to come back at some point.

Even so, I would replace the phone. The advice to do so was right on the money. Once potentially malicious actors have physical access, it can be compromised in ways that are _extremely_ hard to detect, let alone mitigate.

That’s not a reason to not change the phone There are mobile OS that are not Google, Microsoft or Apple

Grey import a Huawei phone. At least it might expedite an asylum claim if China already know the basis for it (j/k, but maybe)

Shut up

Replacing your phone isn’t bad advice, but if you’ve actually gotten on the radar like this a new phone won’t help They can (and will) continue to monitor you

obviously the least worrying part of this but just curious to know whether they also make you pay for the flight home?

Do you live in North Venezuela?

Troll Alert!!

And I’m appalled. So.

I'm sorry that the current administration of my country treated you so awful. 😢😭 Keep up the good work.

That's **** horrific

Hi Alistair, what a harrowing experience. Is it your impression that the US is now analyzing passenger lists with tech like we see in the movies and _Person of Interest_, doing deep dives on every individual, including social media posts, employment, etc., even before they take a person's phone?

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I was with you until substack. It’s a nazi platform. Giving money to substack helps nazis. I won’t do It.

Do you have an alternate for Substack? I want to support your work but I absolutely refuse to give that nazi-friendly company money

I was shocked to hear yesterday. Glad you're okay mate. Insane and awful.

Can't have freedom of thought in an authoritarian oligarchic regime #unite

Both our local and national journalism have been captured by billionaires, of course they are afraid of real journalists from other countries that they don't already own.

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That’s horrifying and I’m so, so sorry. I’m ashamed of my country’s actions.

Good that you're out. It's like Gilead over there right now. Be glad that you're back in civil society now.

This is so embarrassing for those of us who have not lost our minds. I am sorry our country treated you this way. I pray this will end soon and we can work on earning back trust from our allies.

We're no longer the land of the free sadly and I'm so sorry that this is how our country violated you and other tourists based on if they support our president or not. This is as anti-American as it gets. None of this is normal and its very scary this is what our country is now.

The what? What's there about anyone's moral high ground?

It's amazing how much this admin hates free speech.