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The US are really working hard to get prohibition, 30's great depression, and McCarthyism all at once.
Some other things from the 30s, too.
I've been sending emails to hotel companies and urging them to oppose this. I urge you to contact your congresspeople and also companies in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry and demand they oppose this policy and more broadly ask them to stand up to Trump because he's causing people to rightfully boycott the US.
Also to everyone who is boycotting the US thank you so so much, I'm really grateful and as are so many Americans who also hate what the Trump regime is doing. The more people who boycott the more pressure it will put on companies to finally stand up against the Trump regime.
Yeah man, just remember we love you guys despite your insane government.
"In addition to social media histories, Customs and Border Protection would add other new data collection fields, including email addresses and telephone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the addresses and names of family members, the notice reads."
Wtf I was planning to visit NYC but this is crazy man.
Yet another reason to avoid the US as a tourist. Looks like hotels and airlines did not bribe Trump sufficiently.
Seriously, this is so stupid. I'm never setting foot in US soil ever again.
What if we Holy Roman Empire and the feds just become a figurehead element?
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This is our daily reminder that the Republican party has revoked the US Constitution in its entirety.
Ok so if I have to travel to the US for work, I will now require my employer to give me a burner phone with a burner number.
How will they prove that I have any social media history?
It depends on their relationship with the social media companies. There's a good chance companies like Meta have already given the authorities a lot of data on their users. US law enforcement might already know about some of your accounts based on your identity, and then claiming you have none might not work well.
If you can't prove Social Media history, you don't get in, they arrest you, and deport you without due process to a life sentence in an El Salvador torture prison where you'll never be heard from again.
Just tell your employer you're not going.
My employer issues us with a wiped laptop that we can restore from cloud storage over our VPN once we're in-country. Before we return, we back it up and scrub it again. When I go to the US, I always bring a low-functioning burner phone as well.
How will they prove that I have any social media history?
Hard to say what the US government knows, or admits to knowing, about your social media usage. I almost completely stopped using social media a few years ago, except for Lemmy, and overwrote all my posts with lorem ipsum, as well as never having accessed it before that without using a VPN and doing some other obfuscation, so it'd take some effort to associate me with anything but some boring Facebook and LinkedIn updates I maintain so that certain people can still get in touch with me.
If it's a US based company, the NSA has all of your web traffic to the site.
Have you heard about 'age verification' to 'protect the children'? You too will be age verified. They will know all your accounts. That's the whole point of age verification. It is to eliminate anonymity.
I am well aware of the bullshit that the politicians are using abused kids to push through.
People are already boycotting the us, they don't need another reason.
You think it's going to stop there? US citizens will soon have to do the same, or be on the no fly list.
Those lazy fucks, they've already had those data for years!
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How on earth can the people who voted for this piece of shit not see him for the coward that he is?
I guess I'm going have to get some sort of Social Media account that I don't currently use, and keep up with fake postings, just so I have something to show the Redhats when they stop my on the street and say "Ihre papiere, bitte!"
Soon it will be easier to visit North Korea than the USA, which I suspect is the plan.
We have already postponed our Disney trip until the cheeto is gone.
I am prepared to go to Europe or Japan instead though if America can't figure its issues out.
Or, and hear me out on this, he can fuck right off.
Then again I'm not the target for this type of tyrannical despotism because there's absolutely no chance I'd ever willingly visit that place.
You're not the target yet
It's like getting banned from smacking my own balls with a hammer.
Oh noes!
You realize that you don't have to go to Florida?
But how else am I supposed to pet the alligators? Do you seriously expect me to go all the way to Africa to pet the crocodiles in the Nile instead?
I feel sorry for anyone who has to go for work; I imagine tourists will choose another place to go.
A lot of places are finding workarounds in order to not deal with this and potentially open up serious legal avenues. I know my company is actively avoiding sending anyone here from anywhere else because of shit like this.
We have special cell phones for travel to China and the US. However all travel to those hellholes has to be approved by the CEO and will only be approved of it is absolutely necessary for contract negotiations.
I wish my employer did that. Instead, people go freely back with their company issued phones and notebooks. 🙄 All the security we have as certification requirements is moot when we bring these devices back into our network like it's totally fine.
Another reason to never set foot in the fascist states of dumberikkka ever again!!
I don't even remember all the reddit account I had in the previous 5 years
Off to El Salvador with you!
Why did you have more than 1?
Posting.
Porn.
Weird porn.
Furry porn.
Backing myself up in arguments.
I basically made a new throw away account everytime I needed to post in some stupid support forum that only existed on reddit.
Unfortunately, many companies think reddit is a valid place for support forums these days. I try to avoid any such companies now.
I'll take open and indexable Reddit support forums over walled off Discord servers any day.
I don't know why anyone is still visiting the Untied States but I hope this deters them
I'll start creating and selling accounts.
And I suppose I'll continue my plan of staying the hell away until this administration is long gone
This feels pretty hard to enforce, are they gonna let people self select what they provide or are they perhaps going to give a list of services to give accounts for? The latter would have me looking either like a ghost that disappeared about 7 years ago (for most public social media) or one that disappeared about 3 years ago (if Reddit is included)
What happens to people who don't use social media at all? Are they going to be treated with suspicion?
until this administration is long gone
Based on past performance, the next Democrat administration will repeal maybe 50% of these changes at most.
We're probably going to find out eventually. For instance, I have never once in my life had any manner of account for any traditional social media. Just reddit (not anymore) and here. That's it.
So good luck with that, fuckers.
Ha! I deleted my Facebook account more than 5 years ago.
Like I would ever want to visit the US under Trump to begin with.
If I'm not mistaken, people who said they don't have any are beeing held for questioning and interrogations, or maybe even denied access. I vaguely remember reading an article about this a while back, so it may not help you as much as you think.
They can (how long can they hold you based on suspicion alone?) and will cause you a lot of trouble if they don't like what you give them.
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