Coming from the people that keep lecturing Europe about Free Speech: Speech-based harassment at the border.
Can't make this shit up...
US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but few other countries are as draconian about this as the US seems to want to be, and it is relevant to want to discuss how it will affect the US to make itself a less attractive place to travel to.
Try travel to Europe on an African passport…
I don't doubt there are worse countries/scenarios. We're dealing specifically though with the downward slide of the U.S.
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#173What of those who have virtually no footprint? Almost the only thing I have is LinkedIn, which is always only as up to date as the last time I changed jobs, which I don't do often. No Facebook, insta, snap, twitter, tiktok. I subscribe to maybe five channels on YouTube. My HN account isn't linked to my main 'identity' email address so I could hide it just by having a clean phone (which I do for international travel a…
Wouldn't an HN account need to be mentioned, once this platform is made visible enough, so that the bozos in charge, in the US, take it seriously? A social media ICE would love to dig into such.
I don’t consider hacker news to be social media… And I wouldn’t expect others to, either.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Including Republicans in the Young Republican club…
More like most zoomer right-wingers honestly Its only the oldheads and those with financial stake that are big on israel
You’re forgetting about all of the Evangelical Christians who think that if Isreal is not protected, Jesus won’t have a place to come back to when he returns (yes they think this)
And the Young Republicans are real live anti semite Nazi sympathizers and JD Vance made all sorts of excuses for them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-...
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#175This whole thing worldwide will lead to division in the society and to people having secret social media accounts. Only the most lazy and stupid ones will be handing over their private data to any gov security forces.
What do you mean, secret? Your every action online is stored in massive data centres either operated by the US government or American mega corporations.
I can’t believe people STILL believe there is anonymity left online!
Unless you take some “enemy of the state”(great movie btw) level actions, they know everything worth knowing about you.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't an HN account need to be mentioned, once this platform is made visible enough, so that the bozos in charge, in the US, take it seriously? A social media ICE would love to dig into such.
I don’t consider hacker news to be social media… And I wouldn’t expect others to, either.
For what it's worth, HN is on ICE's list of surveilled sites (which it pays a tech contractor to crawl),
https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co... ("The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring")
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to be one of those silly people who conflate antisemitism with disliking how the state of Israel behaves under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu. These are not equivalent concepts.
Almost like their comment is satirizing those people...
Plenty of people express that position without irony or sarcasm, so I'm going to push back against it when I see it.
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#178Related:
State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
More like most zoomer right-wingers honestly Its only the oldheads and those with financial stake that are big on israel
You’re forgetting about all of the Evangelical Christians who think that if Isreal is not protected, Jesus won’t have a place to come back to when he returns (yes they think this) And the Young Republicans are real live anti semite Nazi sympathizers and JD Vance made all sorts of excuses for them. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-...
Evangelical's obsession with Israel is pretty weird (even to other Christians)..
They happily ignore Revelation 14:6? Hebrews 8:13 & 8:9? Galatians 3:28? Mark 16:1
Additionally, Christ commands Christians to preach the gospel to every nation and the scripture not say there is neither gentile or Jews.
Evangelicals will fixate on a verse from Genesis about God blessing people who bless Israel, but ignore the fact that when the country literally didn’t exist as a political entity.
I could go on and on..
Source: I'm a Christian but not an Evangelical.
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#180What of those who have virtually no footprint? Almost the only thing I have is LinkedIn, which is always only as up to date as the last time I changed jobs, which I don't do often. No Facebook, insta, snap, twitter, tiktok. I subscribe to maybe five channels on YouTube. My HN account isn't linked to my main 'identity' email address so I could hide it just by having a clean phone (which I do for international travel a…
> What of those who have virtually no footprint? Those people wouldn't want to travel to a police state anyway.
But they might have to.
I’m on the same boat and told management at work that I won’t be traveling to the US while Trump is in power, which they seem to be fine with, but who knows if that’ll last.