U.S. now can ask travelers for Facebook, Twitter handles
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#2More important: what happens when someone refuses to tell or claim not to have one?
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#3More important: what happens when someone refuses to tell or claim not to have one?
whatever happens to people when states assume they have things to hide.
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#5Headline is a bit misleading. This was possible before, it's just a bit more official now. "Visa applicants might have faced requests for their social media handles in the past, but the practice is now explicit...."
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#6More important: what happens when someone refuses to tell or claim not to have one?
Subject you to more searches, seize your luggage with few means of appeal, and deport you. More and more reasons not to bother traveling or doing business with the US if it can be avoided.
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#7More important: what happens when someone refuses to tell or claim not to have one?
For US citizens, they may hassle you a bit but they have to let you in. For non-citizens, any refusal to cooperate will likely result in being refused entry and immediate deportation back to wherever they came from.
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#8Do people who travel to other countries REALLY have the gall to post something threatening to the country they are traveling too?
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#9More important: what happens when someone refuses to tell or claim not to have one?
For US citizens, they may hassle you a bit but they have to let you in. For non-citizens, any refusal to cooperate will likely result in being refused entry and immediate deportation back to wherever they came from.
Does this actually apply to US citizens at all? All the reporting I've read suggests this is solely visa applicants, which of course will never include US citizens.
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#10Do people who travel to other countries REALLY have the gall to post something threatening to the country they are traveling too?
I don't think this is what concerns most people at all - a bigger concern is how broadly defined whatever measure they use for "anti-American" social media posts is.
There's no shortage of harmless anti-Trump social media posting throughout the world - how long before we read a press story covering someone who tweeted a tame criticism of the president being denied entry? Twelve months ago I'd have found the idea hard to believe; today, not so much.