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Or their accounts were banned for being too contrarian, or they were systematically downvoted into invisibility.
Well, that'll be great for the tourism industry. What, precisely, are they hoping to learn, here?
Precisely speaking, they're looking to catch any critique of Israel because it'll provide a broad dragnet that will exclude a lot of Muslims and libs. (I'm not just saying this to be inflammatory. We already know the administration has been going after legal immigrants on the basis of criticisms of Israel. This is a completely reasonable connection to this social media policy.)
What 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…
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Though yeah, it is a bit eerie how out in the real world it's just business as usual.
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On one hand, you are clearly exaggerating. On the other hand, the actual conversations I hear my friends having about business-trips to US are more stressed than conversation my dad used to have with my mom when he was traveling to do business for banks in India, Pakistan or Russia decade or two ago.
My friends travelled to India two decades ago as tourists, it was fairly normal thing to do.
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I mean, we've got 20 point swings in special elections and mass protests ranging from large to huge all over the place and you'd barely know if you were looking at the evening news.
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On the other hand, this is what a large part of the country has always been about. The establishment has just been able to keep the worse parts of it down and do everything through dog whistles instead of outright racism.
I’ve seen people afraid to talk about politics for financial reasons. Everything from Micheal Jordan’s “Republicans buy shoes too” to James Thompson of Stratechery who euphemizes that Trump is “transactional” instead of just outright saying “he openly accepts bribes from companies” - referencing the $15 million Paramount gave him directly for the merger to go through.
Data remains, but the moral interpretation changes over time. And more and more data will be used against you.
I'm going to assume it's then going to be considered suspicious if you don't happen to have any social media for at least the last 5 years ?
My social media is full of rants about the ongoing trend of bringing fascism to the US and the authoritarian and repressive tendencies of the current president. Am I not allowed to say that?
Besides, why would you want to come if you don’t like it here?
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Hacker? Straight to jail.
No no, spend three months in an untraceable maze of ICE holding facilities, then to jail, then deported to a 'shithole' country that you didn't come from in the first place.