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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.

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[–] viking 5 points 20 hours ago

The trump administration can kiss my dick.

There. This is part of my social media history now.

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just don't go there. There's no due process currently over there, at least for foreigners.

If you absolutely need, send a robot instead of yourself. Much less hassle. :)

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"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.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

They'll just say you're lying, detain you, and charge you with withholding evidence.

I'm not kidding

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

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.

They're going to have AI look this shit over. No person will look unless AI flags it I bet

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But how many people are dumb enough to have their phones searched with their social media apps on them?

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most people. The vast majority of people. Because most people aren't that "paranoid"(if you can call it that when the threat is real)

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yup, exactly. And they know this.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO MAKE FUN OF ME.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Also US:

Why is our tourism dead? Why does nobody want to visit our shit hole country anymore?

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Hahaha eat shit Dumberikkka! How’s your tourism industry doing? Bad? Not a thing of value was lost.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could not pay me to go to the US. Id sooner visit Syria.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"will have to" is such a misleading phrasing... Many of them will visit elsewhere. Fuck that shit for tourism. It's not worth it, not to see some sites.

[–] anugeshtu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There are so much more nice sites on the planet. South America has lots, New Zealand, Australia... Just to name a few. Why would I spent money to go to that place and thus supporting a fascist regime, getting profiled for nothing and be seen as a potential threat for nothing when there are so many better alternatives?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know why anybody still chooses to go to the Untied States

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They are stupid would be my assumption. This said as an American.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

none will be asked of RUSSIAN, Saudia arabia, UAE, israel no doubt.

[–] slate@sh.itjust.works 93 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Surely nuking the entire tourism industry (again) will fix the economy!

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

Especially for world cup!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

They don’t want their kids exposed to different cultures. Much easier to keep people bigoted when they never meet a foreigner.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They really want to kill the tourism industry.

Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Because we are all required to use social media?

[–] Blade9732@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is why you don’t use your real name online.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is why governments are pushing age verification to track you while pretending it's to protect the children.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] slate@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago

Recited from memory

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So, I guess it's been foreign tourists who have been planting pipe bombs and shooting up our schools?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

No, that's ANTIFA, who is fully supported and funded by the Democrat Party.

/s, just in case.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago

They come in to steal our most coveted blueberry picking jobs.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish the conservatives realized with tariffs and having no tourism to the U.S. we will surely starve.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

They don't care, as long as the rich are unaffected

[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

"Sir, the memes are coming from inside the house!"

[–] Renohren@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People should not be coming to the US. They are likely to be chained and sent back by these fascist.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 11 points 2 days ago

Sent back if they're lucky. Otherwise sent to concentration camps, El Salvador, or just never seen again at all.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As if people are even planning to visit. I’m not, not even when Trump is dead.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe when the union is dead, but yeah they are speed running the collapse of an empire.

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