<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BigJ1211</author><text>That would really depend on how you define freedom, if you look at it theoratically like &amp;quot;free to do whatever you want&amp;quot;. Then &lt;i&gt;maybe&lt;/i&gt;, if you look at it from the perspective of &amp;quot;an individual can garner freedoms through work&amp;quot; they are far more likely to do that in most &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; western countries.&lt;p&gt;You are far more likely to not have to worry about things like healthcare in european countries than you are in the US for example. You are far less likely to have to work multiple jobs to sustain your life. &amp;#x27;Class&amp;#x27;mobility is far is better in most other western countries as well.&lt;p&gt;So if your definition is &amp;quot;free to do whatever&amp;quot;, this also means other people and corporations are free to screw you over. And you would be right that in that regard the USA is freer than other western countries, but it infringes upon personal freedom, and in my opinion, that is the kind of freedom the USA gneerally says they&amp;#x27;re all about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinay427</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s still, at least on paper, freer than many&amp;#x2F;most other Western countries in most ways AFAIK. I agree that this is a very absurd counterexample, however.</text></item><item><author>kmlx</author><text>land of the so-called free.</text></item><item><author>david-s</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s absurd</text></item><item><author>rendall</author><text>You are both correct.&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, the &amp;quot;border&amp;quot; for legal purposes extends 100 miles into the interior.</text></item><item><author>igammarays</author><text>&amp;gt; If you are a US citizen, you can&amp;#x27;t be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device.&lt;p&gt;A warrant is not required. Federal agents can search your phone at the US border, even if you&amp;#x27;re a US citizen [1]. If they can&amp;#x27;t unlock it, they can seize it [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;can-us-border-agents-search-your-phone-at-the-airport-2017-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;can-us-border-agents-search-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usatoday.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;u-s-customs-can-seize-your-phone-when-you-return-home-abroad&amp;#x2F;3632116002&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usatoday.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;u-s-customs-c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>noident</author><text>If you want to keep your phone secure, enable a long passcode, turn on full device encryption, and turn it off. If you are a US citizen, you can&amp;#x27;t be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device. If you&amp;#x27;re not a US citizen or don&amp;#x27;t want to be harrassed by customs, bring a burner phone.&lt;p&gt;Tools like Cellebrite can and do take advantage of security vulnerabilities. Turning off pair locking lulls users into a false sense of security and is therefore harmful. Further, only restricting CBP searches to &amp;quot;manual&amp;quot; searches isn&amp;#x27;t enough and does plenty of damage to your privacy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pair Locking Your iPhone</title><url>https://arkadiyt.com/2019/10/07/pair-locking-your-iphone-with-configurator-2/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jw1224</author><text>Can you give a few examples of ways in which a US citizen is more free than I, a UK citizen, am?</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinay427</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s still, at least on paper, freer than many&amp;#x2F;most other Western countries in most ways AFAIK. I agree that this is a very absurd counterexample, however.</text></item><item><author>kmlx</author><text>land of the so-called free.</text></item><item><author>david-s</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s absurd</text></item><item><author>rendall</author><text>You are both correct.&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, the &amp;quot;border&amp;quot; for legal purposes extends 100 miles into the interior.</text></item><item><author>igammarays</author><text>&amp;gt; If you are a US citizen, you can&amp;#x27;t be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device.&lt;p&gt;A warrant is not required. Federal agents can search your phone at the US border, even if you&amp;#x27;re a US citizen [1]. If they can&amp;#x27;t unlock it, they can seize it [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;can-us-border-agents-search-your-phone-at-the-airport-2017-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;can-us-border-agents-search-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usatoday.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;u-s-customs-can-seize-your-phone-when-you-return-home-abroad&amp;#x2F;3632116002&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.usatoday.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;u-s-customs-c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>noident</author><text>If you want to keep your phone secure, enable a long passcode, turn on full device encryption, and turn it off. If you are a US citizen, you can&amp;#x27;t be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device. If you&amp;#x27;re not a US citizen or don&amp;#x27;t want to be harrassed by customs, bring a burner phone.&lt;p&gt;Tools like Cellebrite can and do take advantage of security vulnerabilities. Turning off pair locking lulls users into a false sense of security and is therefore harmful. Further, only restricting CBP searches to &amp;quot;manual&amp;quot; searches isn&amp;#x27;t enough and does plenty of damage to your privacy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pair Locking Your iPhone</title><url>https://arkadiyt.com/2019/10/07/pair-locking-your-iphone-with-configurator-2/</url></story>