US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/457134
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America is such a fucking joke it's no longer funny. I wish we could isolate the rest of the world from your madness but unfortunately we can't.
As a Middle Easterner, I genuinely feel sorry for the non maga Americans, but unfortunately that's your fight to fight.
Good luck.
The comments are ridiculous.
People: if ThE cOuNTry sUcks, wHy doN'T aMeRiCAns dO anYthiNG aBOut iT?
Also people: LoL siLLy aMeRiCAn, AcTiviSm doESn'T wOrk
We're damned if we do, damned if we don't. Keep fighting the good fight. You've got a good decade on me, but I see you and I'm right there with you. ✊
"And fight we do" LOL
Unleash the devastating power of the Kumbaya warchant on your little stroll to the streets!
The regime will crumble before your eyes.
[X] Doubt
Lol at the downvotes. Floo is a known troll. They don't do shit other than go on the Internet.
That's 5% max.
The Blue MAGA are just as bad for the world, they only cry now bcs they're getting a taste of their own shit domestically.
Depending on where you live in the world America has been pretty bad for a pretty long time. But I agree under this new technofascist oligarchy it will become a nightmare
For much of the world, it was already a nightmare
As a Native American this attitude would be a lot more understandable and palatable if America wasn’t colonized…
I totally understand your sentiment. Undoubtedly the USA is built on stolen land, much like Israel.
and there are no illegals on stolen land.
All of history is one people taking over another peoples land. I'm not saying its right, but in virtually any part of the world there is a history of some invader or colonizer coming in and displacing or swallowing up the existing people, probably multiple times, down through prehistory as well.
These immigration raids and terror tactics are terrible on their own, but it’s especially absurd when Native Americans get caught up in it, and it just fully exposes how disingenuous and transparently racist the whole effort is. So I’m sorry that your peoples have to suffer even more because of this racist mindset.
From a January article:
I heard another more recent example of a car full of Native Americans being pulled over, aggressively questioned, and asked for their papers, but I can’t seem to find it. It’s utterly shameful how we treat people.
Can the native Americans just kill the leader of the colonizing force?
The terror inflicted upon Native American peoples has been complete, it seems. AIM is a good example of what happens when you step out of line with the controlled opposition.
Of course, how would they know if you don't list any? Oh, that's right, PRISM. Fully expect that people who don't have social media accounts to get accused of having them simply because someone else shares the same name and did say First Amendment protected stuff, like Donald Trump is a terrible fucking president and should be impeached.
Sorry person with the last name Erdude. I guess you aren't getting into the US now.
I feel like I'm going to be responsible for Trump sending ICE to raid the Shady Pines community event planning committee that picks the color schemes for their weekly card games.
it’s ok. my married name is Erdude but we spell it E’Rdude.
I am a doctor and my professional name is Dr. ER dude.
Why does this make me think of Birdcage…
Impeached and then executed for treason.
Dragged out and gaddafied
I was thinking more of Mussolinied
lmao, their tourism is going to shrivel and die so fast
The attendance for the next FIFA cup was already looking bad, and I can't imagine the US government wanting your history of online activity to help it even a bit.
I can't wait to see high attendance in Mexico and Canada-hosted matches, with rock bottom attendance in the US. Even US fans travelling domestically, don't go, especially to the states that are falling into line with Trump.
Not that it will actually be recognized for what it is. I may put together a bingo card on the ways media spins it.
I've been boycotting the world cup for a decade because they can't stop giving the host status to horrible states
Yeah looking at the attendance for the world club competition is pretty bad.
Maybe that will finally kill off the giant amorphous blob of human rights violations known as FIFA
The last one was in some barbarian gulf state, now it's even worse. Fuck FIFA
It already is.. Many people from Europe I know, now cancelled their plans.
Here officer my username is ifuckyourmum69
Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.
If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.
Source:
look at the news, airhead. They detain tourists and journalists for far less nowadays. Even fucking Senators. What else needs to happen for you to wake up?
Who was denied entry for not having social media?
Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.
But a super recent account would be suspicious
You have to do this over a couple years
I can see a black market for decade old "clean" social media accounts to bypass the system lmao
They want to stay by themselves? That's fine by me. But then they should also stop exporting their Hollywood and streaming turds (as well as their shit food). That would only be fair. And maybe also stop behaving like if they owned the entire planet?
Sure why not, since my name is Anthony O'Neill. You can find my short form username: Anon.
What could they find? I bet I'm save.
I'm betting on the opposite problem,
We show here you've been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.
Yes, what possible community full of people named "Anon" could they find that would get you in any amount of trouble?
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4chan. they call each other anon all the time
This is kind of stupid. I don't even remember social media tags I've used. Who would want to go through this shit to get into redneckville?
Exactly, they are talking about dozens of names. Who on earth would remember that, let alone want to share it.
This was explained to me years ago. They don't give a fuck about what you said. They want you to lie, in case they need to fuck you up. If for some reason they want to screw you, they'll look for these uids, and if you hadn't declared, they'll slap perjury charges on you.
in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:
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::: spoiler note in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.
in all seriousness, renaming someone else's account and presenting it to CBP as one's own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states. :::
You can need a visa for tourism.
People want to travel to the USA still? Bizarre.
This is stupid. This will not stop spies and terrorists, they will just create fake accounts. This will only hurt legitimate immigrants.
This is for non immigrant visas it says
What I said can be applied to any type of visa. The policy is not going to fix anything, it's only going to invade peoples privacy and turn away legitimate visa applicants.
USA being USA
Btw don’t forget to switch instance
What if you don't have social media accounts?
Right away, jail!
"quite suspicous what do you have to hide?" and then they smack you with batons arrest you and put you in jail with gang members muders and every evil and vile person
That's even worse.
Lol I don't even remember most of my previous handles. If amnesia isn't a valid defense I'm never getting into the USA. Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.
Nobody can and that will be use to prove that you lie on the form if they need to find something on you in the future.
Lol, now even the dumbest asshole should understand that they should cancle their US vacation...
I legitimately do not, and have never had, any of the usual social media. This lemm.ee account is the only one I have, and that's closing down soon.
However I would also never visit the us. So it's all a win/win for me.
"Well that can't be right. Highly suspicious. What do you have to hide?"
Grizzly murders. Loads of them!!
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J/k. It's my privacy. All those horrific murders were really easy to get away with, keeping my privacy private however...
Good thing I delete that crap 10+ years ago. Enjoy the shitty data and memes!
Same, but it worries me that now I look like I'm hiding something.
I guess technically I am hiding something: It's disdain. Disdain for shitty social media is what I'm hiding.
"Why? Is the CIA hiring?"
No, we were actually liberating it from oppression.
Quite a few of the current crop of deputized ICE agents are MAGA goons from four years ago. So long as you're actively doing the gruesome work of ethnic cleansing, you'll be given a pass.
Well, that’s one more reason to never come to the USA again
My US visa officer: what do you mean you did not have 'social' media accounts in 5 years? No, these weird sites don't count. Underground terrorist? Straight to gulag.
Quoted here https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47068548
Ideologically unaligned visitors need not apply. Got to keep America pure, without the pesky freedom of subversive thought.
It's a chance for
everyonevisitors to practice right think.While looking for a link, I found links that make me think some folks are trying to unironically reclaim the term "right think". Gross.
Too many people aren't reading 1984 anymore, while billionaires thought it was a "how to" guide.
Just don't wait to ask Grok what it thinks "Right Think" is, as Musk plans for it to rewrite human knowledge and understanding with a new lens. :')
"I don't use social media"
If you’re a student, you must have something to hide, as everyone uses social media
For the longest time that answer would have been literally true for me, I only used SMS.
Even worse. Fully unencrypted messages
I'm trying to move my conversations to Signal, but some people are strangely resistant, despite using multiple corporate social media messaging services besides that.
People don’t like change
Lying on an official document? Straight to jail.
Didn't actually have any accounts? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
It doesn't matter anyway, there is no rule of law in the united states. You might as well lie, they will likely jail you no matter what you write on that document.
Just don't go there.
Holy crap. How is this even real?
I mean they make you sign away your rights and tell them if you’ve ever been affiliated with any one who was in or if you joined a communist party. So this is just another layer on the shit cake.
I can wait for @[email protected] to share those moths post for his embassy appointment
Also the only way I can be stopped from posting moth
Guess I'm never entering the US. 😭😭
(Pretty damn lucky if you ask me)
This is why I’ve already deleted basically everything, social media is a cancer that pushes us further and further apart and replaces meaningful interactions with vapid and shallow counterfeit interactions, it’s a net loss for anyone using it at this point.
Meanwhile, you post here :P
"I am very intelligent."
And soon you will be deleted due to lemm.ee closing
I barely remember this username and I'm looking at it every time I post something.
Going there with a crappy handwritten letter including all 40’000 throw-away users I ever created
/s
welcome to Autocracy ladies and gentlemen, sit back, grab some popcorn and pay attention to your neighbours, some might start dissappearing soon
football selling out to Qatar who use slave labour and stone gay people to death, now US who hate foreigners and will detain you at random, and being in 2034 in Saudi Arabia, who also hate human rights is just the icing on the cake. I wanted to fly to the US for the world cup, but fuck that, fuck Trump and his cronies across the globe
Who TF wants to set foot in that shithole banana republic anyway?
Stuff your visa, and return the favor and stay TF out of other people's countries.
That would be a welcome change.
I haven't get my #viss, but since last year I was thinking about it. With these news and for what you see from the #USA, there is no way that I'll throw myself into that humilliation
Does Lemmy count?
Oh no, I might have to lie to the government
Good luck. NYS couldn't even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.
Oh well, I wouldn't have been welcome anyway, seeing I've had the audacity to be critical of Israeli
genocidedefense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.Guess I'll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.
Great decision
But sir, the form only has space for four!
I'm a Small Government Republican and I FULLY support this FREEDOM! If you WANT to Come into our Country you have to RESPECT OUR CONSTITUTION (which means you ARE allowed to Shoot Up a School but THATS IT!)!
How many schools are allowed per person?
There is no limit to freedom!
Or create fake profile with trump positive post, but no history probably suspicious.
Or even buy a fake age profile…that is going to be a business
Don't post trump positive stuff at all. Just post cat videos of you want to make a fake account and add content to it
No more bot farms needed
Oh look, fake social media accounts used. Fantastic. No gaps here!
i mean just say you don't have social media it's not like they can access private social media databases
They can in fact access private social media databases.
Of lemmy.zip?
I don't have any