US Proposing to Require Review of five Years of Social Media for Foreign Tourists Entering the US

[Unkotare]

Why do you think that?

A lot of people want to visit, study, etc.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

This is meant to normalize social media crimes.

If democrats steal and cheat their way back to power they will be going through all Americans social media looking for thought crimes to charge Americans with.

Democrats locked a guy up for a meme, text 34533 to vote for Hillary.

Democrats will impose UK style speech laws on Americans.

Democrats = traitors

Red herring fallacy, failed attempt to deflect.

 

[Zincwarrior]

A lot of people want to visit, study, etc.

Would you want to visit if you had to give up your internet social media, passwords, etc?

 

[Unkotare]

Would you want to visit if you had to give up your internet social media, passwords, etc?

If I wanted to visit badly enough.

 

[Failzero]

Why do you think that?

World Cup ?

 

[sartre play]

Same


I am not disagreeing for personal visas. This is about simple tourism. And its not a babble. Its a government rule thats been put up for public comment.

Some sort of mind control? if you do not love the party in power, Do not come visit?

 

[Seymour Flops]

One problem the U.S. has never had to deal with is not enough people wanting to come to America.

Which is kind of strange, considering how much the rest of the world bad likes to bad mouth us and how much our own democrats and "not democrats" bad mouth does.

Tightening the restrictions to weed out the obvious anti americans it's certainly not going to cut off the flow completely. Those who don't want to submit their social media clearly have something to hide from the country they are hoping to be invited to visit.

Granted, some of them may have a principled stand against revealing their social media. i'm not sure what the principle would be, since social media is so public.

But they're entitled to their principles. Let them enjoy them in their own country.

 

[Failzero]

If your a pro Arab Islamist who desires the Caliphate and Sharia don’t come here

 

[Tommy Tainant]

The Trump admin is proposing that foreign tourists planning to visit the US must provide five years of social media posts in advance before being permitted entry. If so the US would join such democracies as Russia and China. Thoughts USMB? I would submit that this will massively impact foreign tourism to the US. I know if that was required for our former trips to Europe I would have never even contemplated them.



Trump ramps up tourist checks with plans for mandatory social media inspections

Exclusive: ‘These barriers will hit UK travel to the USA hard’ says Julia Lo Bue-Said, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership

Trump ramps up tourist checks with mandatory social media inspection plans

Exclusive: ‘These barriers will hit UK travel to the USA hard’ says Julia Lo Bue-Said, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership

www.the-independent.com

Football fans heading for the 2026 World Cup, as well as other British travellers planning visits to the US, will soon have to provide details of their social media activity going back five years.

The demand is included in a new document from the Department of Homeland Security setting out how it plans to comply with Donald Trump’s demand that foreign visitors should be “vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible”.

At present, the application form for the electronic system for travel authorisation (Esta) invites prospective visitors to reveal their social media accounts, but this is not mandatory. The permit costs $40 (£30) and allows stays of up to 90 days within two years.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have the option to inspect phones belonging to arriving travellers. According to reports, some tourists have been turned away for making unfavourable comments about Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance.

Soon an applicant’s social media activity could be screened in advance, with officials deciding whether or not to issue an Esta to the traveller.

In the document, to be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday 10 December, US Customs and Border Protection says: “CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an Esta application.

“The data element will require Esta applicants to provide their social media from the last five years.”

Being granted an Esta will now depend on a successful screening of social media accounts (Getty/iStock)

Officials are seeking comments from organisations and individuals on the plan.

A leading travel industry figure has deplored the demand. Julia Lo Bue-Said, chief executive of the Advantage Travel Partnership, said: “These barriers will hit UK travel to the USA hard. History shows us that when a destination becomes harder to reach, British holidaymakers simply go elsewhere.

“Right now, US bookings are up 20 per cent across our membership, driven by events like the football World Cup, but new obstacles could quickly reverse that trend.”

Other proposals in the document include a plan to end applications via the Esta website – requiring all applicants to use the app instead.

The document says: “CBP believes that moving to a mobile-only approach for Esta submissions will both enhance security and improve efficiency.

“Poor-quality image uploads to the Esta website have resulted in applicants bypassing the facial comparison screening.

“CBP believes that travellers are aware of this vulnerability and have begun to exploit it by purposely uploading poor-quality images to avoid detection.

"Additionally, CBP continues to struggle with fraudulent third-party websites. Third-party fraudulent websites charge travellers exorbitant fees to process an application, where many of these applications may never be processed by CBP, resulting in a traveller being unable to board a US-bound plane.”

In addition, the authorities propose a new system to confirm that short-term visitors have left the country – should their departure not be reported through the normal channels such as airline data.

My friends were coming to the US but they are more left wing than me..Pro NHS pro union pro Palestine. Of course they hate trumo.

 

[Hellokitty]

This is a decision that will greatly impact U.S tourism.

Tourism revenue is the best form of revenue as it is a pure shift of cash from one nation to another. Billions that would have been spent external to the U.S was earned externally but spent internally in the U.S. This is a huge boon.

People won't visit the U.S now due to this law, no question.

Yeah I'd be curious as to the laws in other countries regarding tourism. Many countries like the UK already police people social media. Countries that want to lecture the US for things already being done by their own governments can STFU...

 

[shockedcanadian]

Yeah I'd be curious as to the laws in other countries regarding tourism. Many countries like the UK already police people social media. Countries that want to lecture the US for things already being done by their own governments can STFU...

 

[Correll]

My friends were coming to the US but they are more left wing than me..Pro NHS pro union pro Palestine. Of course they hate trumo.

So, the policy is working. Cool.

Thanks for sharing.

I admit I am surprised to see you giving credit where it is due.

Kudos to you, for this shocking display of intellectual maturity.

 

[Meister]

"some tourists" is not broad brushing.

 

[d0gbreath]

They can look at my social media, all they will see is my support for freedom, I'm not too worried. Hell, if I had the right U.S border guard he might even buy me a beer

It's not them looking at it, you need to provide it for them. Contemplate that task for a moment.
Woe be it to the potential tourist that doesn't use social media.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

So, the policy is working. Cool.

Thanks for sharing.

I admit I am surprised to see you giving credit where it is due.

Kudos to you, for this shocking display of intellectual maturity.

Alternate views will not be tolerated in the Reich. Its what the founders wanted.

 

[Failzero]

Alternate views will not be tolerated in the Reich. Its what the founders wanted.

So it’s “ The Man in the High Castle “ now ?

 

[Correll]

Alternate views will not be tolerated in the Reich. Its what the founders wanted.

Hey, you are hostile outsiders. So, stay outside.

Freaking commies.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Hey, you are hostile outsiders. So, stay outside.

Freaking commies.

Not as hostile as most americans. Trump and his gestapo wil be out if they have another election.

 

[Correll]

Not as hostile as most americans. Trump and his gestapo wil be out if they have another election.

We will see. The economic numbers over here are really, really good. The violent mobs in the streets, fighting to protect child rapists and fraudsters, doesn't look to good to real Americans.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

We will see. The economic numbers over here are really, really good. The violent mobs in the streets, fighting to protect child rapists and fraudsters, doesn't look to good to real Americans.

I would expect an actual fascist to be happy with a fascist doing fascist things