Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend. Piker posted about the incident on X and later talked about it on stream.

He was detained in Chiago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch. His phone and laptop were not confiscated.

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[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

“America kidnapped civilians”

It would actually read something more like "US Navy detains cargo crew in violation of blockaid"

I don't think most Americans know just how much they're propagandized, even through mundane things like headline word choices.

Do you not think what they did was terrorism?

Operating a shipping blockaid is a boilerplate armed conflict strategy. No, this doesn't qualify as terrorism IMO.