America wants five years of your social media before you visit. I followed it to Five Eyes, a 1946 alliance kept secret for 64 years.

When I read that the US had proposed making ESTA visitors hand over five years of their social media, I asked myself, would I even want to go there now? Then I went looking at where all that information ends up. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series.

  • Lantsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    No, absolutely not the scariest and likely never will be… But I gotta wonder, what if someone really doesn’t use any social media and then when visiting they get stopped and they got nothing to show? I feel like they’re gonna get accused of “hiding” and denied entry…

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
      2·
      21 minutes ago

      I think the only logical procedure is, they suspect that person of hiding that kind of information, and they start digging for evidence against them.

    • Lantsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Now that I thought about this a bit more, freshly made empty social media profiles would be even more suspicious… Huh. Would the person need to make full-on fake profiles long before the actual trip? I know I plan my travels early, but never ever have had to add a date in calendar for making the decoy social media profiles.

      // "Oh, you say you're not on Facebook? Let's check the anal cavity of this fucking terrorist! *rubber glove snaps*
  • latetolemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    4 hours ago

    OP hasn’t seen vids of guys getting flayed alive by mexican cartel. Lmao scariest. White boy living in suburbs thinks some cameras are scary.