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US border are increasingly denying entry to travelers over others’ social media
- dang 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20816774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20816774
- taylorlapeyre 7y ago> the Trump administration in June began to demand that foreigners who apply for U.S. visas disclose their social media handles and profiles. Some 15 million are expected to fall under the new rule. Can you imagine reading that sentence in 2001 and _not_ imagining the future as a dystopian place?
- JustSomeNobody 7y agoThe sad thing is, no future President is going to reverse this. Trump is, literally, a tool for setting the bar so low as to what the people are willing to put up with.
- OrgNet 7y agoJust like the PATRIOT Act started by Bush... it was not repealed by Obama, it was made worst... even if he promised to repeal it.