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The worldcup next year is going to be interesting.
"Officers were instructed to screen for those "who advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to national security; or who perpetrate unlawful anti-Semitic harassment or violence"."

Okay, that's your job then. It's not mine or anyone else's job to just hand everything over.

>citing national security as a key reason Yes, "national security", "terrorists" or "protecting the children" and you can push any law.
What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts?

There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applications. Surely some of the applicants just don't have any social media profiles. Maybe some of them are reading this. I'm curious about their experiences.

I'm going to assume it's then going to be considered suspicious if you don't happen to have any social media for at least the last 5 years ?
I have to assume the real goal is just to tank tourism.
Well, that'll be great for the tourism industry.

What, precisely, are they hoping to learn, here?

> who advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to national security; or who perpetrate unlawful anti-Semitic harassment or violence

The regime will simple classify pro-LBQT, anti-MAGA, and anti-Trump comments as "threats to national security" or as supporting terrorism.

Also funny how anti-Semitic harassment is emphasized, while other forms such as anti-black or anti-Latino harassment is not.

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What is classed as a social media? I expect they'd want to view by personal instagram, but what about my old business Xitter account that I can't even get into because something went wonky with the 2fa? What about my github? My HN account? Do they want to see my discord history? How will they find my accounts anyway? Not all of them are under the same account name, real name or email address
This whole thing worldwide will lead to division in the society and to people having secret social media accounts. Only the most lazy and stupid ones will be handing over their private data to any gov security forces.
What of those who have virtually no footprint?

Almost the only thing I have is LinkedIn, which is always only as up to date as the last time I changed jobs, which I don't do often.

No Facebook, insta, snap, twitter, tiktok. I subscribe to maybe five channels on YouTube.

My HN account isn't linked to my main 'identity' email address so I could hide it just by having a clean phone (which I do for international travel anyway).

I feel like I'd be suspicious due to the lack of traceability. I've had work colleagues say that they couldn't find a trace of me online (although that was a while ago now, and not colleagues who are adept at online sleuthing).

My age may be just enough to be believably not terminally online.

"It warns that if any social media information is not listed, it could lead to both current and future visas being denied."
So, hypothetically, if I were to say that the Israeli government is committing genocide and Trump is a fascist, would they not let me in? Well, I don't want to travel to the US while it's reigned by a fascist government anyways, so let's go: The Israeli government is committing genocide and Trump is a fascist.
Yet another reminder that "I have nothing to hide" is a bad argument.

Data remains, but the moral interpretation changes over time. And more and more data will be used against you.

It's good to have real feeling behind the "abstract" incompatibility of EU data rights and US law.

"EU-US Privacy Shield" and similar are a crock of shit.

The greatest spy network in human history was built to sell us shitty subscriptions and other garbage.

The amount of talent wasted on building ad-networks is mind blowing.

Sounds like a good plan to improve the tourism industry of other countries.
15 years ago they already interviewed me about some tweet that I made they don't need to ask tourists anything to get their data
My anecdote is that my wife and I are the only people who live in a large condotel (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp) in Florida mostly year round[1]. Everyone else who owns units see them as investments/second homes.

When the owners got together once a year or on FB you could tell that most of them were pro-Trump and I just kept quiet to keep the peace. But now every single one of them and the management company are seeing their rental rates plummet with the drop in tourism because people from especially Canada are not coming down to Florida during the winter. But also tourism has dropped from other countries.

Still none of the owners will address the elephant in the room and the property management company has to address it. But they walk on eggshells.

[1] We only leave for extended periods of time during spring break and the summer when rates are high because of spring break and summer break and we travel and I work remotely anyway.