China already set the bar on this one and America had already started testing it out. Regardless this is disgusting. The world does not need everyone to have a “social credit score”.
It’s like they really want to discourage tourism.
Fascism doing what fascism does
What if you don’t have mainstream social media? Are they going to believe that you don’t have social media?
Hopefully this causes prices of flights to the US to drop. I (citizen) have to go back to visit family this year.
What if you don’t have mainstream social media?
That is literally inconceivable by the self-centered assholes who make policies like this.
Don’t let Musk learn about twitter alternatives, or they will make twitter registration and active usage a visa requirement
RIP the immigration agents who now have to spend 40 hours a day looking at pictures of latte art and people obscuring their faces next to shitty parfaits.
Naw, that’s what shitty AI is for
It’s getting worse than North Korea! But I guess they just used that as inspiration along with Taliban and Putin
Funny enough,my friend who had (for work reasons - humanitarian aid) travel to Afghanistan didn’t have to provide his social media.
Very inefficient when they can just ask FBI, NSA, or any of their counterparts in other countries about people online records. Or they can just arrest high profile person like telegram founder to give access to the logs.
Well, the Olympic Games will be as international as the NFL is, if shit goes on like that.
doubt only Japanese are required this, most likely they’re just the first to report it
They’re not, and it’s not new (it even says this in the article). They’re the last to report it, its news bait because it’s a hot topic. Now everyones clicked and they got their ad dollars.
* writes None in box requesting social media accounts *
This guy is suspicious. To be sent to El Salvador concentration camp.
You mean Trump is offering tourists to Canada and Europe, for free ?
Aww, and I thought he was just a big dumb meanie
how do I get my free tourist?
So is someone going to have to look through all the pictures posing with the peace and heart symbol?
This is not new.