Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit?

7 days ago by TheArchitectAutopsy to c/privacy

America wants five years of your social media before you visit. I followed it to Five Eyes, a 1946 alliance kept secret for 64 years.

When I read that the US had proposed making ESTA visitors hand over five years of their social media, I asked myself, would I even want to go there now? Then I went looking at where all that information ends up. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series.

HubertManne 8 points 6 days ago

I live here and if I did not I would in no way come for a visit even if I had the means since the ice stuff started. Seriously. Places that have unmarked paramilitary randomly kidnapping people and renditioning them to foreign gulags. I mean that should be a no go regardless of what country it is.

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manuremy 7 points 6 days ago

No, absolutely not the scariest and likely never will be.. But I gotta wonder, what if someone really doesn't use any social media and then when visiting they get stopped and they got nothing to show? I feel like they're gonna get accused of "hiding" and denied entry..

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Raffster 2 points 6 days ago

And yet here we are. I never had a social media account, been here longer than the internet and always thought Facebook stupid af. Now what?

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hendrik 2 points 6 days ago

I think the only logical procedure is, they suspect that person of hiding that kind of information, and they start digging for evidence against them.

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manuremy 2 points 6 days ago

Now that I thought about this a bit more, freshly made empty social media profiles would be even more suspicious.. Huh. Would the person need to make full-on fake profiles long before the actual trip? I know I plan my travels early, but never ever have had to add a date in calendar for making the decoy social media profiles.

// "Oh, you say you're not on Facebook? Let's check the anal cavity of this fucking terrorist! *rubber glove snaps*

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jobbies 1 point 6 days ago

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manuremy 1 point 6 days ago

Never left the EU, living in the Nordics. Here you could dance naked on the border road/bridge and no one would blink an eye. But that does sound like how it has looked like in the TV..

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Fizz 7 points 7 days ago

No not even close.

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Treczoks 3 points 5 days ago

At least the scariest in the range of "developed countries".

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redballooon 2 points 6 days ago

That sounds so inefficient. They have Palantier and still need to ask you for what you have done on social media?