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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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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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. :)

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 6 days ago

The trump administration can kiss my dick.

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO MAKE FUN OF ME.

[–] slate@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Especially for world cup!

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Because we are all required to use social media?

[–] Blade9732@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week 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 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

And a throw away email.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] slate@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago

Recited from memory

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All they need is your username. Palantir will do the rest.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week 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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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They really want to kill the tourism industry.

Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (3 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

/s, just in case.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

That's insane. This is insane.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week 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 6 days ago

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

I'm not kidding

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days 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.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago

Yup, exactly. And they know this.

[–] Renohren@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week 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.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week 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 1 week 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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[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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

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

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

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week 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 6 days 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?

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hahahahha what a bunch of thin-skinned losers

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[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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.

Side note: interesting that European countries are not included in the list of allies.

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

Also US:

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

And the rest of us boycott in solidarity.

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

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

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