'This is the definitive end of any claim to moral leadership over the internet that the US might claim; the American-led digital world order is over.' Opinion | willdizard
US border authorities have denied a Palestinian student entry into the United States, where he was set to start his studies at Harvard University next week. They refused his visa because of social media posts by his friends that expressed views that “oppose the US,” he told the Harvard Crimson, whichIsmail B Ajjawi, 17, is back home in Lebanon now, after being deported from Boston’s Logan International Airport on Friday, August 23 by Customs and Border Protection officers.
Ajjawi had received a scholarship from AMIDEAST, a non-profit group that is now working on trying to reverse the decision by the CBP, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. Refusing Ajjawi entry into the United States is an enormous act of cowardice by DHS that should shame every American. This is the definitive end of any claim to moral leadership over the internet that the US might claim; the American-led digital world order is over.
Making them worry they will have their lives derailed at the US border over posts by their Facebook friends that “oppose the US” sends a message to the world that Americans have lost the ability to handle even the suggestion of criticism and their border police have become paranoid Islamophobic bigots.
There was a brief time that some readers may not remember, in the late 1990s, when the internet seemed to be a thing to make the world a potentially better place. It felt like magic, providing us with the superhuman power. Back then, the internet did not seem fated to become a source of conflict, lies, or racism, but rather an avenue for countering them.
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