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No. The First Amendment applies inside the US, but not at the border. Customs has latitude to ignore the usual Constitutional rights. (I don't agree with this, but that's what the courts say.)

The good news is that this only affects physical media. Posting a video on YouTube has the same effect as shipping DVDs across the border, but is out of Customs' reach.



The good news is that this only affects physical media. Posting a video on YouTube has the same effect as shipping DVDs across the border, but is out of Customs' reach.

For now, sort of. After all, it's ICE that is seizing domain names. How long before any time your traffic crosses a border, a customs notice is displayed enumerating all the freedoms you are being denied?


> a customs notice is displayed enumerating all the freedoms you are being denied?

That will never happen. It's more likely there will be a list of how you are being protected from the bogeyman du jour.




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