You’re not being criminally charged and convicted of a thought crime in this situation. You’re just not welcome to join the party. Big difference. Foreigners have no right to enter the USA other than by what the law permits.

Now, I don’t necessarily agree that we should be denying visas to people based on reasonable disagreements with US policy—after all, existing citizens are entitled to share those same opinions! But “crime” means something, and that’s not what this is.

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dboreham 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Uh what? Where's all that "freedom" we heard about for the last 80 years?

	▲	otterley 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Marketing, largely. But indeed Americans are free to think and write as they please without criminal consequences. They certainly have more protections than the British do (especially around defamation).