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.
NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO MAKE FUN OF ME.
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.
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.
They’re going to have AI look this shit over. No person will look unless AI flags it I bet
But how many people are dumb enough to have their phones searched with their social media apps on them?
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)
Yup, exactly. And they know this.
Also US:
Why is our tourism dead? Why does nobody want to visit our shit hole country anymore?
Hahaha eat shit Dumberikkka! How’s your tourism industry doing? Bad? Not a thing of value was lost.
“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.
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?
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.
none will be asked of RUSSIAN, Saudia arabia, UAE, israel no doubt.
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.
Tourists? Straight to cecot
They really want to kill the tourism industry.
Tank every sector of the economy possible. Amazing.
Jfc, they’ll dissolve Hawaii into the ocean
Surely nuking the entire tourism industry (again) will fix the economy!
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,.
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.
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.
Why would anyone agree to providing them with ten years of emails. That’s insane. It’s private. Just absolutely no way ever.
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.
that too
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.
And a throw away email.
And how exactly do they enforce this? I’m just curious, like you get off the plane, walk to customs and immigration, and they say you need to hand over your phone?
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, they already do that. That said, if you have good op-sec, you’re not going to have your social media on your phone. At least, not your real social media, or if you do, you’ll have it behind a password they can’t break and that you’re not going to give them, so this is not really about getting into everyone’s social media per se, it’s more about providing them more excuses to detain people they don’t like, increasing surveillance of people who they know are probably not really doing anything wrong to begin with, and the chilling effect that surveillance provides in controlling those people who are not really doing anything wrong.
I’ve been through customs and immigration and I’ve never saw them ask for anyone’s phone before. That said, no one knows what they’ll do anymore, maybe just shoot us in the face 🤔
I know people who have had to give them the phone. It doesn’t happen every time, it doesn’t happen to everyone, it doesn’t happen often, but it definitely does happen, and from what I understand, they can refuse you entry if you do not. I’m not in a position to say how common or widespread it is, but there are enough anecdotal stories to convince me it’s probably decently widespread, albeit occasional and possibly targeted. Like you said though, no one knows what they’ll do anymore, maybe just shoot you in the face. And that’s kind of the point. They want that environment of uncertainty and not knowing when the bullet is going to come for you.
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.
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.
