US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, who can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.
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The US has the personnel to go through 5 years of every tourists personal social media history? I think fucking not.
The beauty of AI.
Target an individual's account for keywords or even just vibes. See what you can fish out. Impose highly public harm to a handful of soft targets. Your people will love that.
FOX News would gleefully run footage of some Blue Hair teenager crying in an airport because she got flagged at TSA for posting "Fuck Trump" on Facebook.
And that's what this is really for. Not some air tight seal on travel, but a few repeatable meme moments you can blast to your hog base
i read that as “blast your hog to.”
and i thought - those maga assholes will jerk to anything.
Off topic ... Is cranking your hog masturbating?
Oh Jesus, I did not interpret it like that I just thought of loud motorcycle noises...
It's both, that's the funny
oh no. I've used this joke in group chats
Eh, own it and move on. Can't change the past.
+1: yes
I meant, they're not mutually exclusive after all!
It will also have a quota to fill. flag 5000 turists a day or we'll remove 10% of your RAM
is it dedotated wam?
Even better
It won't most of the time and even if it does from time to time that's a feature not a bug.
AI is great for identifying things if you don't care about false positives.
And if it's wrong, who cares?
It's wrong by design.
Palintir is is estatic to access all this data.
That's not how it works. AI has already categorized all accounts, they'll just lookup how people have been classified all these years.
Statistical word parrots will.
I wonder how long it'll be until a prompt injection "attack" is used in a major terrorist attack.
Everyone is already in a database. NSA has scraped these sites already and tagged the data using Palantir’s tech. All they have to do is scan your passport and use your data and biometrics to pull a file up. The only thing they need is your permission to make it legal. If you want to enter you have to give permission.
Then why do they need you to submit anything?
So they can pretend that they don’t have this database already.
So they can try and catch an innocent mistake and arrest you for lying to them.
Delete the biometrics that provide access.
I don’t mean biometrics to unlock your phone. I just mean your face and fingerprints, which they take a photo of when you enter the US. They will use that to scan for matches in a database.
They're still expecting tourists to visit? How cute!
FIFA World Cup is going to be interesting
Literally Munich Olympics.
Isnt that LA in 2028?
I know of more than enough people from my closest field (work, friends and family) that are not in the slightest disencouraged from this which is a fucking mistery.
If your social media history doesn't block you from access to the US, what the fuck are you even playing at?
TRUMP'S A LOSER!
Why would you visit America right now? I live in a major tourist zone, and I'm here to ask foreign tourists to go somewhere else right now. There are lots of nice places in the world, where the government will appreciate you visiting and spending your money. America isn't one of them.
I wonder what theyll do, when you legitimately dont have any social media.
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¡Sir, he doesn't have a b(utth * le)!
¡We'll have to make one!
They'll make you sign up for Truth Social. It also doubles as a torture method
Probably deny you entrance either way.
Good thing I've been avoiding the US ever since the Patriot Act.
By the way, highly recommend Canada as a vacation destination.
What a shithole country.
I'm not visiting even if it's just for a connection flight
The US can just go fuck itself
Is it not already?
with trump at the helm? There's not gonna be an USA soon.
Weren't they already doing this? I could have sworn some French researcher was denied entry over this months ago.
Yes, they were doing this... selectively. I think it is determined by country of origin and shade of skin.
US could go fuck themselves. people should stay away from the fascist banana republic anyway
Banana Republic? I wasn't even aware that brand was still around but I'm really confused how that relates to anything... What did I miss? Guessing they supported Trump?
the term doesn't refer to a company in this context
it's more about Trump being a textbook Tropico dictator (Tropico is a game btw)
I had no idea there were alternate meaning. Now I'm going to have to find out if the company named itself after that, and if so why...
Got to learn something today!
It is not a fruit company.
Destroy the economy some more, please. Thank you.
All this winning's getting hard guys hard
At this point, he's got to be a Russian agent. He's pretty much single-handedly dismantled the United States on every level.
To be fair the heritage foundation earned a little credit
Definitely not single-handledly, there’s a lot of republicans working on this.
Also, given how dumb and incompetent he is I’m sure he’s just a clown distracting people. So the Epstein class can achieve their goals.
He’s owned by Israel.
Imagine going to the US
I did, and I did not like it.
This is like a man standing inside a fire saying "you're not allowed to step in this fire with me unless you hand over your information!"
Uhh no thanks, I'll stay out of the fire. Thanks. Nice try.
Now playing Rage Against the Machine- Sleep Now in the Fire
I don't like RATM anymore since they got so political ...
/s
Id also want the social media history of tourists who are crazy enough to come to the US.
It's insane to think anyone would travel to the US as a tourist, or for work.
They think "it won't happen to us".
you can't even pay me to go there
Create an account. And just post the same meme over and over and over. Don’t friend anyone. Don’t interact with any other posts.
A decoy account
Too bad i dont have any social media, so i will probably be flagged as a terrorist.
Imagine having the money to take a visit to the US and not using the money to visit someplace actually nice.
Yeah that's why I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts a couple weeks ago.
I deleted my Twitter account when Musk bought it.
I wonder if they check Mastodon though.
Although I won't be going back to the US for a long time anyway.
Could we citizens of the 5 eyes countries gag on the boot any harder ?
Fuck we are pathetic at what we take from our governments.
It would be interesting to see tourism numbers the last fre years
How do you provide this? Print my thousands of posts?
give us your handles and we'll run them thru our LLMs, I'd imagine?
Do my Lemmy posts count? If not, I don't think I have anything in the last five years on the zuckerbergs
What if you have no social media?
I deleted it all over five years ago, Reddit almost 3 years ago.
Other than Lemmy that is. That's all I got if that counts as social media.
I feel like they wouldn't believe me though and deny me. How do you prove you don't have something?
They legitimately find lack of social media to be a red flag.
DNA aswell. I was pretty shocked.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
I don't see that in the article, where did you hear that?
Sorry, edited it to my comment.
Edit2: Maybe it's not mandatory for now. But it looks suspicious to me.
Edit 3: Found it. Yep, back to nazi act alert:
I went to the US last year for a work conference knowing it was probably the last time i'd be going
America’s gonna need to kill their pedophile overlords before I think about stepping foot in there again.
USA is the new China
Yeah, I’m not stepping into America for a while.
The US could arbitrarily brutalize anyone for using the wrong flag emoji in their profile
Also, please don't delete your accounts
How come?
And what if you say I don't have 'social' media, and you really don't haven any. Then what? I doubt the believe you.
My life goal is to leave the US for more than five years and to entirely avoid social media. I want to discover and embody a life without screens in a place (or places) that is not a dumpster fire. Imagine just living an analog life in some village, occasionally visiting a city... traveling by train or bus, buying a ticket when you need one at a ticket counter or vend machine... Who knows if I would be allowed back in. Who knows what the US will look like in another 5-8 years (since I can't retire for another couple years). It may be I can't leave and will have to find a place here as off grid as I can get. I know my kid and their spouse may also want to take a powder from this shitshow.
They asked for social media accounts in the ESTA application for years. I never entered anything, it always went through
So?
any idiot wanting to go to that fascist shithole voluntarily can bend over and spread his ass cheeks AFAIC.
It is considered rude to show humans any sort of AI slop.
yeah. it’s a shame because people used to actually write things like that and it was amazing.
now after the third paragraph i start realize that i’m reading actual garbage and it makes for a sadder day on the internet.
oof.
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That's a very patient immigration officer, didn't interrupt you once.
By the time you got to the third sentence explaining the fediverse they’d put a sack over your head, load you into the van, and you’d never be heard from again.
Yeah, you could've just stopped at "I don't have social media" instead of burning processing power at a data center somewhere for a pointless ramble.
eww
Denied entry at the moment of mentioning the Fediverse
This is a funny bit, sadly ruined by the AI! You could have written a line or two yourself to give us an idea of the rambling surely?