The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week.
Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa waiver program can generally come to the U.S. for up to 90 days for tourism or business travel, without needing to apply for a visa at an American embassy or consulate, a process that can take months or even years.
The list of countries in the visa waiver program includes many European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as well as some U.S. allies around the world, including Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
Surely nuking the entire tourism industry (again) will fix the economy!
Especially for world cup!
They don’t want their kids exposed to different cultures. Much easier to keep people bigoted when they never meet a foreigner.
Well there are still people stupid enough to visit the Untied States now, I don’t know what would have to happen to get through to them
we will probably see the results after christmas,.
Because we are all required to use social media?
Not required to use, just access to all your social media. In addition, the rules want your phone history, including texts and 10 years of emails. Also remember, this (Lemmy) is considered social media. So, good luck if you have ever posted anything on a forum that a bunch of Nationalist Christians, or Nat-c’s for short, don’t like.
This is why you don’t use your real name online.
This is why governments are pushing age verification to track you while pretending it’s to protect the children.
its to silence dissent against israel, and right wingers, and young people are the most avid at using social media to communicate thier displeasure of govts.
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And a throw away email.
Yeah how are they supposed to know this is my account? How are you even supposed to provide them with all of this info? And how are they going to review all of this data if they can even obtain it in the first place?
AI.
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They are revamping ESTA. Currently, many countries citizens do not need a visa, but must get the electronic ESTA, to travel to the US. You can’t just walk off a plane and gain entry, you must have prior approval. They are going to try to check everyone through some AI bullshit and make it hard or scary to even come to the states, denying you entry before you even get on the plane. This just fits right in with making America a bigger shithole and destroying it.
No, but if you do, the (American) social media companies will tattle on you, guaranteed.
Sir, please refrain from any discussion, just hand us over your Facebook.
Yes. If you don’t, they’re gonna label it as suspicious
Iv unironically not been hired for jobs because of this. Because of how well I separate my online and offline life and my entirely non use of Facebook, Twitter, etc. iv had background companies report me as suspicious due to lack of information.
It’s fucked up.
Like printed out?
Recited from memory
All they need is your username. Palantir will do the rest.
Imagine the poor schmuck posting hundreds of tweet per day, he will print 200’000 tweets?
There’s some great potential malicious compliance to be had here.
Although the best compliance is to just avoid ever going to the USA.
They really want to kill the tourism industry.
Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.
Jfc, they’ll dissolve Hawaii into the ocean
The good news is that pretty soon there won’t be any foreign tourism to the US, so no one will have to enforce this.
I’m sure they’ll find somebody else.
I don’t believe this will make much of a difference if people are still stupid enough to visit the Untied States now
So, I guess it’s been foreign tourists who have been planting pipe bombs and shooting up our schools?
Exactly. That tourist may look harmless with their camera and suitcase. But there are actually pure blooded chaos agents sent to destroy our beautiful nation. -s
They come in to steal our most coveted blueberry picking jobs.
No, that’s ANTIFA, who is fully supported and funded by the Democrat Party.
/s, just in case.
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They don’t care, as long as the rich are unaffected
I don’t know why anybody still chooses to go to the Untied States
They are stupid would be my assumption. This said as an American.
Reading the comments in a forum in an Australian newspaper, about 1/2 the people are ok with it and are still going.
Seriously. Don’t come here. Humanity needs to resolve it’s billionaire crisis first.
People need to seriously stop coming here. Pull out any and all business you are able and cut America off. If we’re going to act like a walled garden, why support it? Help keep this cancer contained and stay the fuck away from anything America or American.
You could not pay me to go to the US. Id sooner visit Syria.
You’d probably be safer there.
That’s insane. This is insane.
“I don’t use social media.”
You can’t prove a negative. Shift the onus back onto them. Any attempt at them trying to connect the dots should be met with “That user is not me, any similarities in their name is purely coincidental.”
Create a bogus email not tied to any social media and they won’t have a leg to stand on.
Not to mention how incredibly difficult that enforcing such a policy would be. Could you imagine the manpower required for people to trawl through 5 years of social media history searching for verboten political speech against Dear Leader? Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to use AI for this, since they’d have a hard time finding enough die-hard Trump loyalists to pack into the DHS to actually perform the background checks at the rate they would need to happen…
Better yet, just avoid coming to this rapidly declining country in the first place.
They’ll just say you’re lying, detain you, and charge you with withholding evidence.
They’re going to have AI look this shit over. No person will look unless AI flags it I bet
You have to provide all your email addresses for the last 10 years and the names, phone numbers and addresses of all your family members as well.
BTW, Lemmy is social media.
But how many people are dumb enough to have their phones searched with their social media apps on them?
If you don’t go, don’t invest over there. You won’t have to submit them anything. So like North Korea, Iran or China: stay away.
People should not be coming to the US. They are likely to be chained and sent back by these fascist.
More like chained, thrown into concentration camps, and forgotten about/ lost/ killed. Travelling to this country is an existential threat.
As if people are even planning to visit. I’m not, not even when Trump is dead.
Maybe when the union is dead, but yeah they are speed running the collapse of an empire.
This is protection. Protection for a snowflake trump administration against JD Vance memes. Egos in this government are too fragile for repeated meme attacks and therefore they must be stopped at the borders at all costs. God I wish this was a joke
“Sir, the memes are coming from inside the house!”
