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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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[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 82 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The US has the personnel to go through 5 years of every tourists personal social media history? I think fucking not.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 81 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

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

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i read that as “blast your hog to.”

and i thought - those maga assholes will jerk to anything.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Off topic ... Is cranking your hog masturbating?

Oh Jesus, I did not interpret it like that I just thought of loud motorcycle noises...

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's both, that's the funny

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago

Statistical word parrots will.

I wonder how long it'll be until a prompt injection "attack" is used in a major terrorist attack.

[–] xav@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

That's not how it works. AI has already categorized all accounts, they'll just lookup how people have been classified all these years.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 47 points 2 months ago

If your social media history doesn't block you from access to the US, what the fuck are you even playing at?

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're still expecting tourists to visit? How cute!

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FIFA World Cup is going to be interesting

[–] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Literally Munich Olympics.

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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 33 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] node2527@lemy.lol 26 points 2 months ago

What a shithole country.

[–] bigchieff@lemy.lol 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wonder what theyll do, when you legitimately dont have any social media.

[–] shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago

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¡Sir, he doesn't have a b(utth * le)!

¡We'll have to make one!

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago

Good thing I've been avoiding the US ever since the Patriot Act.

By the way, highly recommend Canada as a vacation destination.

[–] null@lemmy.org 24 points 2 months ago

Weren't they already doing this? I could have sworn some French researcher was denied entry over this months ago.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The US can just go fuck itself

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 24 points 2 months ago

I'm not visiting even if it's just for a connection flight

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

To be fair the heritage foundation earned a little credit

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

He’s owned by Israel.

[–] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

Definitely not single-handledly, there’s a lot of republicans working on this.

Also, given how film and incompetent he is I’m sure he’s just a clown distracting people. So the Epstein class can achieve their goals.

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[–] xtools@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

US could go fuck themselves. people should stay away from the fascist banana republic anyway

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I did, and I did not like it.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] deadmyk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Id also want the social media history of tourists who are crazy enough to come to the US.

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's insane to think anyone would travel to the US as a tourist, or for work.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

Imagine having the money to take a visit to the US and not using the money to visit someplace actually nice.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago

Too bad i dont have any social media, so i will probably be flagged as a terrorist.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you provide this? Print my thousands of posts?

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[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It would be interesting to see tourism numbers the last fre years

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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. 

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

Do my Lemmy posts count? If not, I don't think I have anything in the last five years on the zuckerbergs

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

As well as the collection of social media information, the new document proposes the gathering of an applicant's telephone numbers and email addresses used over the last five and 10 years respectively, and more information about their family members.

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