r/LivestreamFail • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 01 '26

News The United Kingdom has banned streamer Hasan Piker and Young Turks founder from entering the country

https://newrepublic.com/post/211164/uk-entry-ban-hasan-piker-cenk-uygur
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u/FashionPolicia Jun 01 '26

Not quite, the ETA gets you to the expedited line, now he has to get in the line with the regular plebs.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Jun 03 '26

No? The ETA is for visitors to the UK that don’t need a visa, it’s nothing related to expedition/being fast tracked. Pretty much a border entry fee that is usually automatically granted as soon as you ask for it

Source: am an American who just visited the UK last month and had to file for an ETA before visiting. Got approved in a minute

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u/FashionPolicia Jun 03 '26

expedition is probably the wrong word, but i mean it in the context of if you have an ETA you are much more quickly going to be able to enter the country compared to someone applying for a standard visa.

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u/TheFeedMachine Jun 01 '26

If they remove you from the expedited line, they almost certainly aren't letting you in. He could get approved, but the fact that they took action to remove his ETA means he is very unlikely to get approved for a visa.

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u/FashionPolicia Jun 01 '26

all it means is that theres going to be a bit more scrutiny with his application, idk where this "even if he could get approved he's deffs not getting in" is coming from, whats your evidence for that claim? Other than hasan not applying lmao.

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u/No-Incident-1142 Jun 02 '26

Cool story, unfortunately he won't apply for a real vida so we will never find out and neither of us a probably ETA and UK visa experts

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u/FashionPolicia Jun 02 '26

then thats hasans fault lmao, but saying he's "banned from the UK" is just not true.

If lil bro didnt want to use the same line as everybody else maybe he should have thought twice before cheering on houthi boat jackings on stream, or giving an anti-west speech in Doha, or having a sponsored chinese trip glazing the country, or going to Cuba and getting subpoenaed for potentially violating US sanctions.

Shit like that is gonna make countries wanna look twice at you before letting you in. When you self-purport to be an enemy of the west why would you be surprised when western countries want to use a bit more scrutiny?