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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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[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago

I have a like/dislike perspective on Hasan Piker.

Hes tankie-lite. Critical support for him in this case though, fuck ICE.

Its probably an indicator that I really need to touch grass that I'm primarily curious what Ethan Klein and Lonerbox think of this.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

Man, I liked some of Klein's videos from way back ( idubbbz as well) but when YouTubers shift from whatever content they were making to making content about the platform or others on it I usually check out real quick.

I also can't do 3 hour podcasts where people talk over each other and yell either so maybe I'm just not the target demo anymore.

[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

Its further an indication that I need to touch grass that when I read your name I think of Vaush's editor.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 42 points 3 days ago

Wow this is bad. Even if you deem questioning necessary, it being done by border protection is a bad sign. There are other mechanisms in place for that.

The US is spiraling fast.

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[-] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 65 points 4 days ago

At first they came for the Communists...

[-] daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

These people get to ask Hasan head-empty questions for hours and get paid. To think his entire fanbase has been doing it for free this entire time

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 37 points 4 days ago

They can't really tell the difference between Hasan Piker, Mahmoud Khalil, and Yahya Sinwar. They literally don't know there is a difference, and don't particularly care to investigate. It's all just "terrorist," just some of them live in the US and are allowed on the internet. For some reason. Temporarily.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 33 points 4 days ago

I'm glad he was released, this shouldn't have happened. Meanwhile, a random Iraqi who was legally, iirc, here was sent to Rwanda. We know nothing else about that afaik.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 32 points 4 days ago

Fox version, if they even cover it:

"A known terrorist supporter was questioned about his pro-hamas stances and his hatred of America, hatred of our great president especially, and the left naturally are losing their minds over this! Of course they would because they also hate America and hate freedom. They want hamas to run America into the ground and they want transgender Communism forced down your childrens throats! Thank God for the great job border protection and customs does, he's just lucky he got to leave outside of a casket! More than he deserves!"

MAGA: mhmm mmhmm, sound right. Good thing border patrol and customs protects us! We need to give ICE more money! There's nothing wrong at all with this picture!

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