If youβre 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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They will have 0 on me... America here i come! You need someone to smack some' sense into some' of your people! π
i've always found the process to enter the US as a tourist super annoying. this is just too much.
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.
weird af, and the US has the race thing which creeps me out ngl
Yes, racial profiling is our national pastime.
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.
Yes, youβre just asking for trouble showing up here with your swarthy face. 
Being an interracial couple in the States feels like living your life in a constant war zone. Exhausting.
I mostly forget about it, here.
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.
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.
that's the thing about racism and antiracism. the second one sounds good but in practice it's just a NOT operation on the logic. eg, if it's anti-black-racism, then you must be racist against whites. but they don't say that.
just like antifascism. that's just code for communism. most antifa consider big L classical liberals who like Paine and Jefferson and such, to be fascists. and a lot of these types, who believe in politics, think that anyone who doesn't believe that all people of category X that they consider to be degenerate are not so much.
myself, i take people as they are but the patterns are actually just factual and statistical. basically boys from north africa, for example, mauritania, morocco, west african republic or whatever it is. i met one nice moroccan in my life. he was Berber. all the african ones, especially the ones who look like the meme "look at me, now i'm the X" meme. never met ONE in my life who wasn't a straight up psycho gangster or at minimum petty criminal. but my sample size is very small, and was mostly in the context of homeless and prison populations, are inherently messed up people so, idk.
anyway, i'm not planning on moving much outside of the region i'm now in, and aside from the clearly active process of infiltrating those areas with immigrants, very visible especially in Novi Sad, not the most objectionable thing about these places but trending to becoming a problem, because they already have enough issues with the football hooligans and BMW gangster types as it was. pleased to be in a place that isn't even on a major highway, just a little two lane, half dilapidated road and half the houses are empty in the towns, if they aren't partly falling down.
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.
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
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.
They want to know the answer to one question:
Are you a Zionist simp?
Iβm shocked that Washington DC continues to telegraph the most unAmerican shit possible, constantly
Shocked, I say.
I used to cross the border often for occasional shopping trips, as it's a short drive from where I live. It's been getting to be more of a hassle for a while now. I even skipped the recent black Friday weekend, so I guess it's been a over a year since I last visited.
Even in the 90s, the US border agents were super aggressive, always searching my car for drugs and asking weird questions like, βWhy did you visit the Bahamas last year?β
Yes π I was a marijuana smoker, and the car got a thorough cleaning before a trip to America π€£
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.
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.
Domestic blowback
Big Brother, brought to you by the people who (apparently) thought they were voting against Big Brother
Funny how that works.
Itβs 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 wasnβt enough for themβ¦
Thatβs kinda fucked up, but itβs someoneβs private house vs. an entire country with supposed laws that protect free expression, so itβs a bit different.
Mos def. But the fact that some entity reqests socials in order to provide service is a messed up blueprint..
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 doesnβt speak to our nationβs 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.
All systems of control are not bad, as long as they are not abused.
But as we know, they are always abused
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,itβs never about βonly the bad guys.β the abuse *is* the feature.
if anyone needs to coordinate travel or chat without pre-screening their thoughts, holler. Vectorβs 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.
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'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.
Donβt need the digital ID in the U.S. yet. Right now they want us to have a βreal IDβ which is still a physical drivers license it just has βenhanced security featuresβ. I donβt know what they are, I donβt have one. If you donβt have a βreal IDβ, 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.
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
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
USA, seeing that I'm looking for monero: crusify it!!!!
I lost my social. Edit keys on a boating accident
Iβm never coming back. Out of there since 03.
Good luck to the rebels
Obviously a retarded move by the White Houseβ¦. But this seems extremely easy work aroundβ¦.
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 we should definitely read their emails first. π΅βπ«
This is gonna be so great for all the places that depend on tourism for local jobs β 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.
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 canβt make this stuff up.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
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.
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.
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.
Wow
What would be the mode of delivery of such history?
As if theyβve thought this through. Theyβll 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.
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.
Wow dude. Things are getting serious...
I refused to comply and thatβs why I didnβt go to the U.S. π I choose to go to a country with airport still free as fuck ! Let me think where that airport is ..
