Hand over my social media account to get a US Visa? No, thank you.

[triron]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/31/us-visa-social-media-tourism

[Thyla]

1. Yep saw this...

Thankfully I believe I am on the visaless entry list but still, if it was asked for I wouldn't give it.

[mountain grammy]

2. Impact on the tourism industry? This will hurt.

[inanna]

3. From the article....

Donald Trump has done such a good job making America great again that nobody in their right mind wants to visit it any more. Tourism has experienced a so-called Trump Slump; with international visitors decreasing significantly since No 45 took office.

I haven't been to the US in over a decade. Even though Canadians are (apparently) exempt from all of this, that does little to encourage me travel there at this time.

There are places I'd love to visit (NYC, New Orleans, etc.) - but not under the current political climate.

No way.

[triron]

5. Yet all this under an illegitimate administration; not only illegitimate but treasonous.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Wow...this is similar to having your 'papers' when you traveled in ...

communist Russia and or others in the past. Dictator tRUMP is harming Americans who travel overseas for leisure or work, and now w/ tRUMP's proposal, there is going to be a backlash on Americans traveling overseas simply because a tiny minority of Americans and tRUMP are hyperventilating the immigration issue (involves such a tiny % of Americans) when there are so many other significant issues to deal w/.

tRUMP doesn't have the intelligence to deal w/ other complicated issues so he keeps going back to the rabid conversations that seem to have surrounded the immigration issue, an issue that he started. Ass wipe, he needs to step up to the plate and do his job instead of blaming everyone else but himself. Coward and Ass Wipe.

[fescuerescue]

6. They don't want this information so see what you post

I suppose they could use that information to deny you, if you openly post anti-us content....But that's not the point and the secondary case.

What they want this for, is to analyze your personal network. I.e you are friends with "X" and "X" is friends with "Terrorist Y"

This is the same thing that is done to US citizens with meta phone data. It's basically 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon for terrorism


(And for the record, I detest ALL of this, regardless of which president did it. It's un-American, but neither party has done anything to stop it)