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That would be a hard pass for me entering any country.
I am just so incredibly sad for the children who will inherit this shit after I'm gone. Who among us is brave enough to try and stop this? I had my free and fun life... hopefully you can have the same.
> Who among us is brave enough to try and stop this?

That could be you. And it would be a great thing to do if you worried for the future generations.

I currently go to the USA about once a year to visit friends.

If this comes to pass I'll probably not do that anymore.

Will all of that, forcing you to install apps to complete the esta and forcing you to install the CBP app to track your movement in and out of US looks totally wide to me.
Does the ESTA not already require social media? I recall having to provide stuff like that when I applied for mine a few months back
How easy to persuade officer that you truly don't have any social media accounts?
This is obviously very troubling, but I do wonder what the actual technical mechanisms are for "turning over your social media." Do you ....

- Give them your user names and (when possible) the government subpoenas the companies?

- Give them your user names and they just see what's publicly available?

- Require you to give them your passwords?

- Hook your phone up to some device that steals data on the device?

- Something else?

Does anyone know? I'm also interested in the case where you legitimately don't have social media. Does anyone know what happens then? I understand that can look suspicious, but what if you had to travel to the US unexpectedly? You can't go back in time and build 5 years of social media so you don't look suspicious. (on principle, I wouldn't do this anyway.)

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And what if your social media is Chinese and private? They just can't do anything then.

I would worry about them not liking the (true in my case at least) answer of "I don't have social media".
I'd be even more worried about their reaction to me only using tumblr and mastodon, I'm sure I'd be placed on a list for being a "political extremist" solely because of the general vibes there

Now that I think about it, not having mainstream social media or a smart phone would also put you on that list

Easy. Create several accounts with the most unhinged, regular post of the most racist MAGA themes, praising of the great orange leader. Just follow Stephen Miller for inspiration...

They will wave you trough the fast trail...

They just need to see your comments and how many stars you have on you *hub.com account.
If you showed me the headline without the country, I think my honest best-guesses would have been China, Russia, North Korea, and perhaps Saudi Arabia. That seems bad.
There's nothing new in this. US had always been there, operating at a grand, global scale. The only difference is that its allies wilfully subjugated themselves to the US. Read the book 'Underground Empire'.
> There's nothing new in this.

I would like to request some semblance of nuance. Some awareness of context. At least recognition that differences matter.

And yet, “If approved, this policy would apply to all visitors who currently travel without a visa.”
Headlines like this are inversely proportional to how cheap flights into the US are right now, it's almost as if no-one wants to travel there.
They specifically ask to make profiles public, which is a terrible idea for a lot of people (stalkers and so forth):

> To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas will be instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to “public.”

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

That's crazy. We're already living in 1984 but part II - Big Brother Strikes Back
They were already fingerprinting everyone who entered for decades, this is just more of the same.