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US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

28 points by perihelions 1y ago

user____name 1y ago
There's not going to be any midterms, are there?
hackernewds 1y ago
So there is an illegally enforced secret government list of individuals. first they attack the universities, govt institutions. now prominent scholars, individuals and voting systems.
- Twirrim 1y ago
  There's been a list for a couple of decades now, used to stop "Muslim terrorists" that has been repeatedly used to harass individuals with no ties to terrorism. It has repeatedly proven really easy to get onto that list, and really hard to get off it.
Simulacra 1y ago
I'm having trouble understanding this, was he personally canceled, or was the flight canceled? Because other new sources seemed to indicate that because there are airport and airline problems, his flight was canceled but not because it was him.
- general1465 1y ago
  It is more likely that his flight has been cancelled considering ongoing government shutdown.
- deleted 1y ago
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- benmmurphy 1y ago
  it seems like a failure of journalism that the guardian didn't try and reach out to the airline to find out why this guy's flight was cancelled. if the guardian did do this and didn't find an adequate explanation then they should say this in the article. this just seems to be this zero-value-add reporting where reporters are served up information but then don't do any extra work to find out what the fuck is actually going on. its totally possible this guy is being persecuted by the TSA. there was the quiet skys program which i think is for domestic flights and is meant to have been abandoned but presumably there is something else for international flights where the TSA or homeland security can persecute people they don't like.
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jmclnx 1y ago
Well, someone else to follow on BlueSky. Streisand has awakened again.
saguntum 1y ago
He eventually made it to Spain: https://bsky.app/profile/mark-bray.bsky.social/post/3m2sgs7rmek2z https://bsky.app/profile/mark-bray.bsky.social/post/3m2sgs7r... Running theory seems to be that someone found his flight reservation using his name and canceled it after he mentioned somewhere that he was leaving. He'd received various death threats for books he wrote and classes he taught and was leaving for personal safety to teach remotely for the year. The timing is very suspicious given he was able to get his boarding pass and then denied at the gate, so I'm not sure what really happened.

28 points by perihelions 1y ago

There's not going to be any midterms, are there?

So there is an illegally enforced secret government list of individuals. first they attack the universities, govt institutions. now prominent scholars, individuals and voting systems.

Twirrim 1y ago
There's been a list for a couple of decades now, used to stop "Muslim terrorists" that has been repeatedly used to harass individuals with no ties to terrorism. It has repeatedly proven really easy to get onto that list, and really hard to get off it.

Simulacra 1y ago

I'm having trouble understanding this, was he personally canceled, or was the flight canceled? Because other new sources seemed to indicate that because there are airport and airline problems, his flight was canceled but not because it was him.

general1465 1y ago
It is more likely that his flight has been cancelled considering ongoing government shutdown.
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benmmurphy 1y ago
it seems like a failure of journalism that the guardian didn't try and reach out to the airline to find out why this guy's flight was cancelled. if the guardian did do this and didn't find an adequate explanation then they should say this in the article. this just seems to be this zero-value-add reporting where reporters are served up information but then don't do any extra work to find out what the fuck is actually going on. its totally possible this guy is being persecuted by the TSA. there was the quiet skys program which i think is for domestic flights and is meant to have been abandoned but presumably there is something else for international flights where the TSA or homeland security can persecute people they don't like.

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jmclnx 1y ago

Well, someone else to follow on BlueSky. Streisand has awakened again.

saguntum 1y ago

He eventually made it to Spain: https://bsky.app/profile/mark-bray.bsky.social/post/3m2sgs7rmek2z https://bsky.app/profile/mark-bray.bsky.social/post/3m2sgs7r... Running theory seems to be that someone found his flight reservation using his name and canceled it after he mentioned somewhere that he was leaving. He'd received various death threats for books he wrote and classes he taught and was leaving for personal safety to teach remotely for the year. The timing is very suspicious given he was able to get his boarding pass and then denied at the gate, so I'm not sure what really happened.