"Of course my good sir, it's @uspatriot2015." Now, let's all agree to not tell them we can have more than one account! Or to be slightly more specific, I'll give them the facebook account where I dutifully like all the boring funny dog videos and ugly baby photos of relatives, and I'll keep my seditious rabble rousing anti-establishment twitter ac to myself.
US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border
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#12Background check can be instant and automated. Terminal will just display entry denied message. Israel already does something similar. In result it will drive normal discussion underground, and we will see more surprises such as Brexit referendum results.
Indeed Israel does it, but only for Arabic or Muslim tourists that present certain characteristics - political engagement for instance. So it does exist but it's really not mainstream
Do they not see the irony, in a nation of people that used to got the short end of discrimination and thought policing, now doing it themselves?
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#13Time to set up some sanitized accounts for plausible deniability?
Likely unnecessary. 1. Unless you are taking extraordinary measures to sever all connections between yourself and your online presence, odds are there are enough links for any Government to tie a person to an account. Given how much is collected at the border already along with the big-data collected passively by the various TLA Government Orgs, they simply need to pop in your Passport ID or Drivers License or State…
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#14"Of course my good sir, it's @uspatriot2015." Now, let's all agree to not tell them we can have more than one account! Or to be slightly more specific, I'll give them the facebook account where I dutifully like all the boring funny dog videos and ugly baby photos of relatives, and I'll keep my seditious rabble rousing anti-establishment twitter ac to myself.
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#16"Of course my good sir, it's @uspatriot2015." Now, let's all agree to not tell them we can have more than one account! Or to be slightly more specific, I'll give them the facebook account where I dutifully like all the boring funny dog videos and ugly baby photos of relatives, and I'll keep my seditious rabble rousing anti-establishment twitter ac to myself.
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#18Time to set up some sanitized accounts for plausible deniability?
Likely unnecessary. 1. Unless you are taking extraordinary measures to sever all connections between yourself and your online presence, odds are there are enough links for any Government to tie a person to an account. Given how much is collected at the border already along with the big-data collected passively by the various TLA Government Orgs, they simply need to pop in your Passport ID or Drivers License or State…
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed Israel does it, but only for Arabic or Muslim tourists that present certain characteristics - political engagement for instance. So it does exist but it's really not mainstream
Thought policing only for people of arab ethnicity? How generous of them. Do they not see the irony, in a nation of people that used to got the short end of discrimination and thought policing, now doing it themselves?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not as simple as that: they would still need to make the case but you lying at the border just gives US authorities bigger evidence. Couple of years ago a French tourist answered "yes" to make fun of US borders and ended up in jail for a couple of days - not years as obviously he was more a dumb tourist than a real terrorist
> Couple of years ago a French tourist answered "yes" to make fun of US borders and ended up in jail for a couple of days - not years as obviously he was more a dumb tourist than a real terrorist This must have made the USA so much safer.