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Submitted by SquishyGorilla 112d ago | news

US bars friends over Twitter joke

The Sun: "TWO pals were barred from entering the US after innocent tweets joking about "destroying America" were picked up by the country's anti-terror cops." (Culture, Twitter, Web)

Credit url: newrisingmedia.com
GamingManiac  +   111d ago
Serves them right...
TVippy  +   111d ago
Nope, US should be ashamed.
SilentNegotiator  +   111d ago
Making jokes that could be easily misconstrued to be about terrorism and digging up dead people on the internet right before entering the US? Sounds like a good idea. /s

Idiots.

And PLEASE, TheSun, if someone was caught making such comments before going to Britain, they would ABSOLUTELY be detained.
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dazreah  +   111d ago
And they made no joke about terrorism learn to read, its slang for getting drunk/wasted as for the digging up dead people was a line taken from family guy.
SilentNegotiator  +   111d ago
It doesn't matter, they should have been smart enough to realize how their comments could be misconstrued. I DID read the article.

If I said I was going to "end" Britain (let's say that was slang for getting wasted in that location, but only used in the states) and posted a quote from V for Vendetta (that regarded blowing up the parliament) without quotations, I wouldn't be shocked to get detained upon arrival at Britain.
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dazreah  +   111d ago
And the US Officials need to understand that not everything means the same they should be smart enough or trained to see slang terms etc when sticky there noses in and reading peoples tweets etc.
Jihaad_cpt  +   111d ago
what about freedom of speech? Americans can be really silly sometimes.
Numptyarse  +   111d ago
No they wouldn't we have a thing called humour over here matey and we don't take this bollox seriously! US Officials need too understand British slang!
Erudito87  +   111d ago
im confused as to how they found out about the tweet
Jihaad_cpt  +   111d ago
The US government monitor social networks because terrorist normally share their information on public open social networking sites /s
aDDicteD  +   105d ago
lesson learned. hope that scenario wont happen again on people humoring around the net

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