<story><title>Author of cURL denied entry to the USA</title><url>https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&amp;gt; This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...&lt;p&gt;Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.&lt;p&gt;Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.</text></item><item><author>y0ghur7_xxx</author><text>This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...&lt;p&gt;These conferences where people around the world meet should start to be hosted somewhere else. Not in the USA anymore. Somewhere in a country that welcomes people instead of treating all of them like possible threats.&lt;p&gt;Just organize All Hands in Berlin next year. Or Barcelona, or Munich, or Stockholm, or Amsterdam, or whatever. Just not the US anymore. Americans don&amp;#x27;t want foreigners on their soil. Or at least everything looks that way from the outside. Let them be that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickserv</author><text>&amp;gt; Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.&lt;p&gt;Sorry but they don&amp;#x27;t get off that easy when almost half of them voted Trump into office.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve found quite the opposite, out in the boonies you&amp;#x27;re more likely to get harassed when you&amp;#x27;re not the &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; color or religion. I&amp;#x27;ve had some really nice, helpful people turn nasty as soon as I mentioned my atheism, for example.</text></comment>
<story><title>Author of cURL denied entry to the USA</title><url>https://twitter.com/bagder/status/879198063998513152</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&amp;gt; This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...&lt;p&gt;Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense.&lt;p&gt;Americans, especially outside overcrowded urban areas, are courteous, helpful, hospitable people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas.</text></item><item><author>y0ghur7_xxx</author><text>This may be unpopular on an US-centric site like HN, but the US looks more and more like they want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world: very strict immigration policy, travelers molested by TSA on airports, ...&lt;p&gt;These conferences where people around the world meet should start to be hosted somewhere else. Not in the USA anymore. Somewhere in a country that welcomes people instead of treating all of them like possible threats.&lt;p&gt;Just organize All Hands in Berlin next year. Or Barcelona, or Munich, or Stockholm, or Amsterdam, or whatever. Just not the US anymore. Americans don&amp;#x27;t want foreigners on their soil. Or at least everything looks that way from the outside. Let them be that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>croon</author><text>&amp;gt; Americans, especially &lt;i&gt;outside overcrowded urban areas&lt;/i&gt;, are courteous, helpful, hospitable &lt;i&gt;people that are very tolerant of other people and ideas&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Do you care to elaborate on this? That&amp;#x27;s incongruent with voting records.</text></comment>