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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 ?
by bilekas 11mo ago
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 ?
- OccamsMirror 11mo agoI wonder if they'll accept "all I have is a Hacker News account".
- dmd 11mo agoHacker? Straight to jail.
- BLKNSLVR 11mo agoNo 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.
- rayiner 11mo agoYou only get deported to a third country if you refuse to be deported to your home country.
- soco 11mo agoI think deporting you to Switzerland is no fun and won't teach you any valuable lesson.
- TimorousBestie 11mo agoThe information you would need to be able to state this categorically is not publicly available.
- akie 11mo agoMy 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?
- watwut 11mo agoYou are suppressing free speech of fascists by doing that. Your speech might make them feel bad and free speech is defined by your willingness to defend fascists. As an enemy to free speech, you wont be allowed in.
- addandsubtract 11mo ago"I also have a reddit account, but it was banned for inciting violence or harm against Nazis."
- dogemaster2028 11mo agoYou are allowed to say it. Unlike UK, you won’t be arrested. But you won’t be allowed in. Besides, why would you want to come if you don’t like it here?
- nness 11mo agoWho is being arrested in the UK?
- dogemaster2028 11mo ago- Jon Richelieu-Booth for posting a picture of himself with a gun in the US - Jordan Parlour for Facebook posts that were deemed ‘hateful.’ - Bernadette Spofforth for a post with a “mild inaccuracy” - Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, after raising concerns in a private parents’ WhatsApp group about the hiring process of their daughter’s school - Lucy Connolly, for a post calling for mass deportation and to set fire to hotels housing immigrants - Norbert Gyurcsik, for having “extreme right wing music” Germany, you too.
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- perihelions 11mo agoThere's no right to entry at US borders; you can be arbitrarily refused (or much worse) for any subjective suspicion. (And you are misled by assumptions of privilege, any readers who think this could never happen to you. Your social non-conformity (rejection of social media) is quirky and geeky and completely harmless; and surely the nice government man will understand this).
- vinni2 11mo agoI couldn't care less about that privilege. I would rather stay away.
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- techblueberry 11mo agoI have to assume the real goal is just to tank tourism.
- mnky9800n 11mo agoBut why? Tourism is like 3% gdp for USA. That’s like hundreds of billions of annual dollars. Losing that would hurt. https://apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/2025/02-february/0225-travel-tourism-satellite-account.htm#:~:text=As%20the%20industry%20continued%20to,in%202023%20(table%20A). https://apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/2025/02-february/0225-travel...
- techblueberry 11mo ago1: I'm guessing it's mostly in blue states? 2: I think there's a real desire to sort of go hard on eliminating globalization in all ways. "America is for Americans" and all that. I think the ideology trumps economics considerations.
- yareally 11mo agoFlorida hasn't been voting blue recently. Tourism accounts for 8% of their Gross State Product versus 3% for California. California does bring in more tourism money, but it's still less percentage wise.
- techblueberry 11mo ago4d chess then.
- testing22321 11mo agoKeep foreigners out to keep Americans more in the dark about how things operate in the outside world. Don’t want any negative comparisons being made
- joquarky 11mo agoYou're assuming the goals are to improve rather than destroy.