Who obviously understands this complex stuff better than EU leadership.

So you're saying that EU leadership is actually more demented and stupid than Trump?

So you admit that everything I said was true, then. There's no other conclusion one can reach from the fact that you didn't dispute a bit of it.

At least you know what a loser you are.

Be as sure as you want, it's still 100% subjective. Recording the police might not be interference in general, but doing so while standing close enough to be in the way is. It's not the absolute you've been indoctrinated (and yes, you have, your TDS is obvious) to believe.

But believe whatever you want, since you're obviously too cowardly to go do anything.

If their concern is safety, whether or not they're safer at home is entirely relevant. Perhaps they're saying they don't feel safe in the US out of fear of not saying it at home. Stranger, and more outrageous things have happened in fascist regimes, and the UK isn't the only country heading in that direction of late.

The same business as any other police officer has in arresting (and shooting, if they feel threatened) people who interfere with their duties.

And they get to decide what constitutes interference, not some bored, ignorant, stupid housewife who read something on the internet.

Mostly, they're denied visas in the first place.

And is that greater chance than the chance of the same thing happening at home? After all, the UK arrests 12,000 people a year for hate speech, and they have an increasingly expansive definition of hate speech.

I hear they have nicer prisons, though.

But if you've talked trash about the US online, you may not be allowed into the US. But you might not want to say that out loud for whatever reason, and thus need an excuse.

Just because they say it's over safety concerns doesn't mean that's the real reason. (And the Ig Noble folks aren't necessarily the ones lying, they have been probably been told it's over safety concerns.)

If you believe that, you haven't been paying attention. They've always been fascist. They're just finding new tools that didn't used to exist.

The amount of money to be made leading the charge against the latest crisis guarantees that the people in charge not only won't make any effort to solve the problem, but they will actively prevent it from being solved. Once it's solved, you have to move on, and maybe (gasp!) get a real job.

It would be wonderful if there were any agreement on what "the right thing" is. But there never will be.

Your reply will demonstrate why.

I feel like I should point out that they didn't refuse to illegally surveil US citizens, they refused to surveil US citizens for the government. Their entire existence is built on surveilling everyone everywhere all the time to whatever degree they can.

I can't help but wonder if their reluctance to do so for the government is fear of a FOIA request revealing just how pervasive it is.

Of course it makes you less safe. When you use it, the government will know you're using it, and that automatically makes you guilty of something, so expect those jack books kicking your door in at 3:00 AM.

Block their own servers. Sigh.

Remember Roadrunner? They used to - regularly - both their own servers.

Some people should not be allowed to play with email servers.