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.
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. :)
“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.
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?
Also US:
Why is our tourism dead? Why does nobody want to visit our shit hole country anymore?
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.
Trump: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/travel-spending-us-from-overseas-tourists-to-fall-in-2025.html
Also Trump: $12B projected loss? Hold my beer.
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.
Seriously. Don’t come here. Humanity needs to resolve it’s billionaire crisis first.
NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO MAKE FUN OF ME.
Surely nuking the entire tourism industry (again) will fix the economy!
Especially for world cup!
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
They don’t want their kids exposed to different cultures. Much easier to keep people bigoted when they never meet a foreigner.
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 don’t believe this will make much of a difference if people are still stupid enough to visit the Untied States now
I’m sure they’ll find somebody else.
Hahaha eat shit Dumberikkka! How’s your tourism industry doing? Bad? Not a thing of value was lost.
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
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.
And a throw away email.
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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.
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.
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They don’t care, as long as the rich are unaffected
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?
As if people are even planning to visit. I’m not, not even when Trump is dead.
