Listen bud, you can treat antivaxers and bogans like lepers if you want. It is not my problem, they are your cross to bear as fellow citizens. I also think they are retarded, but you seem incapable of understanding this or where we differ.
Read the thread again and observe how you jump to conclusions about strangers (I must be an American who fell down the rabbit hole with those people online and am also like them) and the way you treat people you don't like. That's all.
I don't think you are quite your old selves and don't want to get caught up in your culture wars.
> Why? Whether I refuse to give him my PIN; or I give it to him and he finds nothing of interest; or he does find something of interest: none of that relates to the attitudes of people regarding the pandemic, because none of the things they're searching for are even remotely related to the pandemic.
Hard to believe they are sifting through phones at the border "just looking for kiddie fuckers". There is a reason why you think their approach is completely wrong. You know that makes no kind of sense, it is security theatre.
There is a fellow Australian in this thread describing being searched three times.
In reality you are at the mercy and at the discretion of the border guy. And if he acts like you've acted here and comes across an antivaxer I have a reasonable expectation he would give them a hard time out of spite. Or indeed whomever rubs them the wrong way.
I get how it is supposed to work, I am not claiming anything remotely like they are actively targeting this or that group as defined in the law. I'm talking about how it is enforced.
It isn't something I read online either. Because of this atmosphere people have bad experiences. Normal people.
No point in talking in circles, I'm guessing you'll stay with your cognitive disonnance and keep yelping at me like I'm an antivaxer and this isn't registering at all so I'll wish you the best and stop here.