So?
any idiot wanting to go to that fascist shithole voluntarily can bend over and spread his ass cheeks AFAIC.
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And what if you say I don't have 'social' media, and you really don't haven any. Then what? I doubt the believe you.
It's insane to think anyone would travel to the US as a tourist, or for work.
you can't even pay me to go there
They think "it won't happen to us".
USA is the new China
America’s gonna need to kill their pedophile overlords before I think about stepping foot in there again.
Yeah, I’m not stepping into America for a while.
What if you have no social media?
I deleted it all over five years ago, Reddit almost 3 years ago.
Other than Lemmy that is. That's all I got if that counts as social media.
I feel like they wouldn't believe me though and deny me. How do you prove you don't have something?
They legitimately find lack of social media to be a red flag.
My life goal is to leave the US for more than five years and to entirely avoid social media. I want to discover and embody a life without screens in a place (or places) that is not a dumpster fire. Imagine just living an analog life in some village, occasionally visiting a city... traveling by train or bus, buying a ticket when you need one at a ticket counter or vend machine... Who knows if I would be allowed back in. Who knows what the US will look like in another 5-8 years (since I can't retire for another couple years). It may be I can't leave and will have to find a place here as off grid as I can get. I know my kid and their spouse may also want to take a powder from this shitshow.
They asked for social media accounts in the ESTA application for years. I never entered anything, it always went through
This is like a man standing inside a fire saying "you're not allowed to step in this fire with me unless you hand over your information!"
Uhh no thanks, I'll stay out of the fire. Thanks. Nice try.
Do my Lemmy posts count? If not, I don't think I have anything in the last five years on the zuckerbergs
If your social media history doesn't block you from access to the US, what the fuck are you even playing at?
Why would you visit America right now? I live in a major tourist zone, and I'm here to ask foreign tourists to go somewhere else right now. There are lots of nice places in the world, where the government will appreciate you visiting and spending your money. America isn't one of them.
Good thing I've been avoiding the US ever since the Patriot Act.
By the way, highly recommend Canada as a vacation destination.
US could go fuck themselves. people should stay away from the fascist banana republic anyway
Banana Republic? I wasn't even aware that brand was still around but I'm really confused how that relates to anything... What did I miss? Guessing they supported Trump?
It is not a fruit company.
the term doesn't refer to a company in this context
it's more about Trump being a textbook Tropico dictator (Tropico is a game btw)
I had no idea there were alternate meaning. Now I'm going to have to find out if the company named itself after that, and if so why...
Got to learn something today!
Imagine going to the US
I did, and I did not like it.
What a shithole country.
I wonder what theyll do, when you legitimately dont have any social media.
They'll make you sign up for Truth Social. It also doubles as a torture method
Probably deny you entrance either way.
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¡Sir, he doesn't have a b(utth * le)!
¡We'll have to make one!
They're still expecting tourists to visit? How cute!
FIFA World Cup is going to be interesting
Literally Munich Olympics.
I know of more than enough people from my closest field (work, friends and family) that are not in the slightest disencouraged from this which is a fucking mistery.
The US has the personnel to go through 5 years of every tourists personal social media history? I think fucking not.
Everyone is already in a database. NSA has scraped these sites already and tagged the data using Palantir’s tech. All they have to do is scan your passport and use your data and biometrics to pull a file up. The only thing they need is your permission to make it legal. If you want to enter you have to give permission.
Delete the biometrics that provide access.
I don’t mean biometrics to unlock your phone. I just mean your face and fingerprints, which they take a photo of when you enter the US. They will use that to scan for matches in a database.
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The beauty of AI.
Target an individual's account for keywords or even just vibes. See what you can fish out. Impose highly public harm to a handful of soft targets. Your people will love that.
FOX News would gleefully run footage of some Blue Hair teenager crying in an airport because she got flagged at TSA for posting "Fuck Trump" on Facebook.
And that's what this is really for. Not some air tight seal on travel, but a few repeatable meme moments you can blast to your hog base
Palintir is is estatic to access all this data.
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Weren't they already doing this? I could have sworn some French researcher was denied entry over this months ago.
Yes, they were doing this... selectively. I think it is determined by country of origin and shade of skin.
Id also want the social media history of tourists who are crazy enough to come to the US.
Too bad i dont have any social media, so i will probably be flagged as a terrorist.
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