If you’re planning to visit the United States from abroad, the White House is now demanding to review the last five years of your social media history so they can decide if you are sufficiently pure to enjoy our Constitutional right to free speech.
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i've always found the process to enter the US as a tourist super annoying. this is just too much.
Nostr included?
I visited India a decade ago and the visa process was pretty straightforward, but I did find it odd that they expect applicants to disclose their religious background.
They want to know the answer to one question:
Are you a Zionist simp?
Greece is next, on my bucket list.
My American relatives keep having to fly over here, for visits, as the Europeans don't want to go there, anymore.
Visiting USA used to be a highlight.
weird af, and the US has the race thing which creeps me out ngl
The social media sites have a database.
I’m shocked that Washington DC continues to telegraph the most unAmerican shit possible, constantly
Yes, racial profiling is our national pastime.
Shocked, I say.
Damn it crl + alt + delete!!
Good thing none of our search engines work.
3 years anon on nostr. Phew. I deleted my Twitter (for the years before that)😬
My answer at the boarder will be: what social media?
for me it's a huge issue since i'm mediterranean, kind of a mix of roman and moorish so a Hispanic or Arab depending on who you ask lol. a friend of mine who looks kinda similar had some really bad experiences with the cops over there.
🤣🤣
Even in the 90s, the US border agents were super aggressive, always searching my car for drugs and asking weird questions like, “Why did you visit the Bahamas last year?”
Yes 😂 I was a marijuana smoker, and the car got a thorough cleaning before a trip to America 🤣
Being an interracial couple in the States feels like living your life in a constant war zone. Exhausting.
I mostly forget about it, here.
My car was always a mess, which is probably why I got singled out. I was just reminded of the time I got pulled over for speeding by State Police on the New York Thruway, and afterwards I discovered a half-smoked blunt in clear view through my rear window that a friend had left behind. That was a lucky day for two reasons.
Domestic blowback
FrEeDoM!
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That's so stressful. I've had a few close calls with the cops, including one where they took my remaining joint but let me go with a warning.
"Never let me catch you again." He said.
"Oh don't worry, that's the plan." I thought.
Lol
it's kinda strange because the US has a culture of unity above race, religion, etc. but in practice there are a lot of tensions between groups. here in Spain nobody cares.
Yes, you’re just asking for trouble showing up here with your swarthy face. 
This probably depends on where you live. In my area, no one really gives a shit. Where I grew up... It was harder when I dated a black girl in my teen years. I didn't understand it then and I still don't. And weirdly this issue isn't limited to one race. The issue differs by area in my experience. Maybe our melting pot nature just leads to conflict like this? I would guess we are one of the most diverse countries. Mix in some historical issues and the fiat world leader and problems abound.
Big Brother, brought to you by the people who (apparently) thought they were voting against Big Brother
Yeah. I just can't deal with it, anymore. I could never decide if the racism or the anti-racism was more irritating and bizarre.
It’s not just the US. I was recently declined by an Airbnb host (in EU) after refusing to send them links to my social media.
I told them that the Airbnb verification system is in place, but that still wasn’t enough for them…
Americans will harp on about the UK or Australia, but these laws were literally copied from American state laws and they're being pushed on us by American and Israeli tech companies and legacy media companies both American and domestic.
It's like the only time Americans seem to look overseas is to distract themselves from the same thing that's happening to USA.
The second fucking amendment exists for a reason.
Without that the first means nothing.
If you're not willing to uee the second amendment, then it also means nothing.
Laws don't protect people, laws protect governments and corporations from people.
I dated a Mexican guy in high school and his family threw an absolute fit. I was like ???
Both of my nieces are married/engaged to a Mexican guy, now, and it's still a constant issue and it's like
I'm glad y'all are finally starting to talk about this.
Next start talking about how ice are working with both the cartels and Israel, kidnapping and disappearing American citizens along with migrants, except the migrants are getting sent to work camps while the citizens are just disappearing.
Like fuck it's not looking good for any of us in the west, and most of the world is going to be forced to comply next.
I heard you can't even fly domestic in USA without a digital id.
They tried to roll out digital id in Australia during Covid and nobody signed up.
most people were just writing down fake names and fake phone numbers on the paper form whenever they had to do a sign in.
A lot of people think it's the reason behind the social media ban for under 16s, force adults to do age verification.
And digital ID is going to be the "convenient" way to verify age.
Social media eh? Isn't that for kids
What’s social media?
USA, seeing that I'm looking for monero: crusify it!!!!
Don’t need the digital ID in the U.S. yet. Right now they want us to have a “real ID” which is still a physical drivers license it just has “enhanced security features”. I don’t know what they are, I don’t have one. If you don’t have a “real ID”, you have to have a passport to fly.
Yeah real id is the name for the American digital id.
So many people seem to have fallen for it, it'll be the same here.
They'll rename it the age verification system.
We've had digital id since 2021, very few people used it, rona was the excuse, scan a QR code whenever you enter a building or travel anywhere.
People hated it.
But a simple name change and I bet people will sign up for the convenience.
It'll be renamed the convenient alternative for age verification, something along those lines.
I lost my social. Edit keys on a boating accident
Funny how that works.
That’s kinda fucked up, but it’s someone’s private house vs. an entire country with supposed laws that protect free expression, so it’s a bit different.
Mos def. But the fact that some entity reqests socials in order to provide service is a messed up blueprint..
I’m never coming back. Out of there since 03.
Good luck to the rebels
You can op out. You can fly without digital ID and opt out of the eye scan as well. Speak up & know your rights in the US
Obviously a retarded move by the White House…. But this seems extremely easy work around….
Free speech 🤣🤣🤣
Right?
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences of anything you say. Not allowing non citizens to not enter based on what they said is not an infringement of any of their rights. Or should we just let anyone come over from abroad and not look into who we're letting into the country at all?
No one's telling them they can't express whatever they want. But if you're saying fuck the US in social media, why would we let you in? Seriously?
Weeding out people who have opposing political viewpoints to the party in power but pose no threat is a dangerous idea that doesn’t speak to our nation’s stated principles.
Sure. I agree. But without evidence, that doesn't sound like what they're actually doing. Sounds like to me they're weeding out people that may have ill intentions when visiting. Which of course would skew to the party not in power, since they're more likely to be the ones making death threats to the other side. Which might I add is not protected speech no matter if you're a citizen or not. It's assault.
Real ID primarily:
- sets a lowest security requirement for the card issued (UV, holograms, etc.)
- sets a minimum required process to verify that it is actually you getting the ID
- requires some other things about your legal status to get one
- requires machine-readable barcode with the same data as the front of the card
Wow
What would be the mode of delivery of such history?
As if they’ve thought this through. They’ll probably just ask for a handle and then yeet it into Grok to summarize.
I was only asking, because I can send them my data already now. I am not going to USA, but I would want them to read what I have to say, plus admire the pictures of my late dog.
Its not just your posts. But also your families too.
Trump admin is doing this? That's weird
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Yup, it's crazy and needs to be protested.
As far as I understand the deadline for public comment is 9th of February 2026. This must not be allowed to be imprinted into law.
All systems of control are not bad, as long as they are not abused.
But as we know, they are always abused
Wow dude. Things are getting serious...
No we should definitely read their emails first. 😵💫
This is gonna be so great for all the places that depend on tourism for local jobs – and just in time for the World Cup next summer!
Bet you look at social media of people who come to your house you don't know.
Right and you have a ride to privacy and we have tools to make that happen. You can't just say stuff on public platforms and expect that anybody will let you do anything they want based on what they may have read there.
aye. once a threshold is crossed,social scoring, govt demanding 5 yrs of profiles,it’s never about “only the bad guys.” the abuse *is* the feature.
if anyone needs to coordinate travel or chat without pre-screening their thoughts, holler. Vector’s got gift-wrap & marmot MLS, so your shitposts stay between you and the folks you choose,not some border desk-jockey.
Privacy by Principle, not privilege.
What you say in public is something that you can control. It's just like face tattoos. No there's nothing bad or morally wrong about face tattoos but you don't get to decide how other people feel about it when you go apply for jobs.
So basically you have free speech as long as you don't say the wrong things. Nice, by that definition every single country in human history has had free speech. North Korea has free speech according to your definition. You can say what you want, it's physically possible, you'll just have to suffer the consequences for it.
North Koreans do have a natural right of free speech... Everyone does. That's what rights are. The US is the only place that has a constitutional protection for speech. That still doesn't mean threats of violence is free speech. It's a pretty easy line to draw. You don't have to obfuscate it to make your argument look better.
You're retarded and moving the goal post.
I don't think so... Your counter to what I said is "you're retarded" what did I say that was wrong?
Saying "Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences" is an utterly retarded thing to say. As I correctly pointed out. You then try to move the conversation towards violent threats which makes you retarded.
What's retarded is not changing your opinion of someone based on things they say. So say some old racist person slings the n word everywhere in public. I'm not supposed to judge his character because freedom of speech? That's pretty fucking retarded. So when someone says "I hate Palestinians", Gaza should let them in because freedom of speech? Don't act like you live by anyone can say anything and I don't pass judgements based on their speech. That's not what you do. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to decide how other people have to feel about that speech. It's not an argument. It's just reality. Present a counter to that.
I really don't... There have been very extensive qualification processes for a long time for anyone looking to enter the US with any one of the available visas. This here is thought police.
They want every tourist to submit a DNA sample. This is next-level retarded. You can’t make this stuff up.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
I refused to comply and that’s why I didn’t go to the U.S. 😁 I choose to go to a country with airport still free as fuck ! Let me think where that airport is ..
What if they have no social media?
I would not agree to that so I would not be entering the US at this time for sure. Fingerprints are one thing. DNA is over board.
I don't have Facebook so I understand if you don't either but if you did have a Facebook and you made an event on Facebook and someone said they were going to attend your event and you didn't know them, you wouldn't click on their profile? You wouldn't want to know who that person is coming to your house?
You are probably right. I guess it comes to the fact I don't throw party so I have not found myself in that situation. Though, I've attended plenty of parties and while curiously clicked through others profiles I have not extensively checked the whole guest list. On occasion I might have sold something on marketplace and maybe I don't remember correctly but I don't think I did like a whole screening. I could see now how a little of that wouldn't have hurt.
Yeah... No words. Wow.
It's situational of course. Your kids birthday party at your house? I would make sure I at least browsed the profile of anyone who said they'd come. I don't like selling things on marketplace out of my home. I always meet at a busy public place.