Joke on twitter. Get banned from entering the US. Be careful what you tweet.
Leigh Van Bryan and Emily Bunting’s Twitter comments about destroying America, by which they meant they were going to party big time, were taken literally by Homeland Security twitter monitors.
When they arrived in LA to start their 3 week vacation, they were detained, questioned for hours, held overnight in cells with drug dealers, and sent packing back to the UK. They are now barred from entering the US in the future without special permission and a Visa.
Their jokes about digging up Marilyn Monroe were also taken literally. TSA searched their luggage for shovels.
In 2010, Paul Chambers fell foul of Section 127 of the UK’s Communications Act 2003, which describes how one tweet was of “indecent, obscene, or menacing character”, when he threatened to blow up an airport in a fit of anger.
Luke Angel sent an email to the White House which was full of abusive and threatening language. He was also barred from entering the country.
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