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00:00One of the internet's biggest political voices just got detained at the airport and it's raising serious questions about free speech.
00:07Hassan Piker, better known as Hassan on BeOnline, is one of the biggest progressive political streamers in the country.
00:13Now user Mag reports Piker was recently detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection when returning from a trip to France.
00:20And Hassan shared his experience during a live stream which was later re-uploaded to YouTube titled Hassan got detained by ICE.
00:27Piker stated he was asked to step aside during his first experience with Global Entry.
00:32She goes, step aside sir, an agent will come and take you to another location. I was like.
00:37And according to the Customs and Border Protection website, Global Entry is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection program that allows expedited clearance for pre-approved low-risk travelers upon arriving to the United States.
00:49But even with Global Entry, Hassan, who is a U.S. citizen, was pulled aside and then detained for two hours.
00:55And let me tell you folks, the TikTokers that talked about being detained, they were right.
01:03Now TikTok has been full of videos recently from influencers, many of them with anti-Trump views, sharing their experience being detained after traveling.
01:11So I posted a video a couple days ago talking about how I got detained as a United States citizen born and raised.
01:15Then he said, oh, you know, do you make content?
01:18And I said, yeah, I do.
01:20And he goes, oh, can you show me your TikTok page?
01:23I just landed, literally still waiting on my baggage.
01:26That was not my experience.
01:27I will say I have Global Entry.
01:30And that probably makes a difference.
01:31Reportedly, most of these videos come from U.S. citizens.
01:35One TikTok user even wrote that they were asked to list their social media accounts while traveling to Canada.
01:40And most of the videos shared by those detained detail a similar experience to Hassan, with specific questioning around their views on the war, President Trump, the type of content they make, and what they report on, especially for those in the political influencer niche.
01:55Now Hassan, who said he was honest with officials about not liking Trump due to his failure to end the wars, explained that he started to repeat the same phrase.
02:03And during questioning, officials even asked Hassan about his Twitch bans, leaving him to feel like the whole thing was just one big scare tactic.
02:18They wanted to put the fear of God into me.
02:21Back in March, Piker received a one-day ban from Twitch after a viral clip showed him saying viewers should kill Rick Scott, a reference to the Florida senator's history with Medicare fraud.
02:32The ban sparked major backlash and serious scrutiny from Congress.
02:36Representative Richie Torres even sent a letter to Twitch and Amazon executives accusing Hassan of spreading anti-Semitic and anti-American propaganda.
02:45And according to his official website, Representative Torres called Hassan the poster child for a wave of anti-Semitism online and questioned why Twitch continues to give him a platform.
02:55But now, the backlash for Hassan isn't as strong this time, as many echo concerns that this is just the beginning.
03:03One YouTube user even wrote, this is actually what dismantling the First Amendment looks like.
03:08And for Hassan, he believes it all comes down to this administration's goals around freedom of speech.
03:13They might actually start prosecuting speech, which I do fear is the goal of this administration.
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