The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, who can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.
It’s insane to think anyone would travel to the US as a tourist, or for work.
you can’t even pay me to go there
They think “it won’t happen to us”.
If your social media history doesn’t block you from access to the US, what the fuck are you even playing at?
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.
Now playing Rage Against the Machine- Sleep Now in the Fire
I don’t like RATM anymore since they got so political …
/s
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.
The US has the personnel to go through 5 years of every tourists personal social media history? I think fucking not.
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
i read that as “blast your hog to.”
and i thought - those maga assholes will jerk to anything.
Off topic … Is cranking your hog masturbating?
Oh Jesus, I did not interpret it like that I just thought of loud motorcycle noises…
It’s both, that’s the funny
oh no. I’ve used this joke in group chats
Eh, own it and move on. Can’t change the past.
+1: yes
I meant, they’re not mutually exclusive after all!
AI will just make shit up.
AI is great for identifying things if you don’t care about false positives.
It will also have a quota to fill. flag 5000 turists a day or we’ll remove 10% of your RAM
is it dedotated wam?
Even better
It won’t most of the time and even if it does from time to time that’s a feature not a bug.
Palintir is is estatic to access all this data.
And if it’s wrong, who cares?
It’s wrong by design.
That’s not how it works. AI has already categorized all accounts, they’ll just lookup how people have been classified all these years.
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.
Delete the biometrics that provide access.
I don’t mean biometrics to unlock your phone. I just mean your face and fingerprints, which they take a photo of when you enter the US. They will use that to scan for matches in a database.
Then why do they need you to submit anything?
So they can pretend that they don’t have this database already.
So they can try and catch an innocent mistake and arrest you for lying to them.
Statistical word parrots will.
I wonder how long it’ll be until a prompt injection “attack” is used in a major terrorist attack.
What if you have no social media?
I deleted it all over five years ago, Reddit almost 3 years ago.
Other than Lemmy that is. That’s all I got if that counts as social media.
I feel like they wouldn’t believe me though and deny me. How do you prove you don’t have something?
They legitimately find lack of social media to be a red flag.
USA is the new China
Good thing I’ve been avoiding the US ever since the Patriot Act.
By the way, highly recommend Canada as a vacation destination.
They’re still expecting tourists to visit? How cute!
FIFA World Cup is going to be interesting
Literally Munich Olympics.
Isnt that LA in 2028?
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.
America’s gonna need to kill their pedophile overlords before I think about stepping foot in there again.
What a shithole country.
US could go fuck themselves. people should stay away from the fascist banana republic anyway
Banana Republic? I wasn’t even aware that brand was still around but I’m really confused how that relates to anything… What did I miss? Guessing they supported Trump?
the term doesn’t refer to a company in this context
it’s more about Trump being a textbook Tropico dictator (Tropico is a game btw)
I had no idea there were alternate meaning. Now I’m going to have to find out if the company named itself after that, and if so why…
Got to learn something today!
It is not a fruit company.
Imagine going to the US
I did, and I did not like it.
I wonder what theyll do, when you legitimately dont have any social media.
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¡Sir, he doesn’t have a b(utth * le)!
¡We’ll have to make one!
They’ll make you sign up for Truth Social. It also doubles as a torture method
Probably deny you entrance either way.
Weren’t they already doing this? I could have sworn some French researcher was denied entry over this months ago.
Yes, they were doing this… selectively. I think it is determined by country of origin and shade of skin.
