Posted on 12/15/2025 8:29:36 PM PST by MacNaughton
The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a rule that should have sent shockwaves through every newsroom in the country: visitors entering the United States under visa-waiver programs may soon be required to hand over five years of their social-media history before boarding a plane. No context, no criminal suspicion, no triggering event, just a mandatory reveal of your digital life, tied directly to your passport.
On paper, the justification looks familiar. DHS presents the change as a security upgrade, a harmless modernization of screening tools to help identify threats. They repeat the same vocabulary Americans have been conditioned to accept for nearly twenty-five years: risk assessment, extremist detection, foreign influence, and national security, the same language now used to justify everything from online censorship programs to federal ‘misinformation’ monitoring teams.
The phrases sound responsible until you remember that the people most capable of harming the United States do not use traceable social-media accounts under their own names, and never will. The only individuals who will comply are ordinary travelers, the exact population governments always survey first, because they won’t fight back.
The truth is simple. This proposal has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with infrastructure. The United States is building the skeleton of a social-credit system, one that looks different from China’s on the surface but functions with the same relentless logic: link identity to digital behavior, evaluate individuals not by what they do but by what they have said, and create a permanent record that can be used to grant or deny access.
China didn’t begin with “social credit.” It began with real-name online registration, mandatory platform disclosure, automated behavioral analysis, and the normalization of state-monitored digital footprints. America is following the same path, only faster, and with more sophisticated technology and far fewer safeguards ...
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“Visitors” have no rights at all, in my opinion. If we tell them they must jump on a pogo stick 37 times before entry, that’s the rule.
Sick and tired of foreigners beefs with our porous inbound human flood.
Good luck with finding my “digital past”.
Patriot act was passed under Bush.
But this is a different system.
Are there people who object to looking into
the background of people who want to come to the USA?
Who ever supports this needs to be taken out back and Che’d.
Too bad Che is no longer around.
The author does not say it is a bad thing...
He says it will not catch the really bad guys:
“the people most capable of harming the United States
do not use traceable social-media accounts under their own name.”
The rule has absolutely nothing to do with creating a
“social score” or a “social credit”.
Yup.
Everything justified in the name of "National Security" to protect us from foreigners has a strong tendency to be used against the domestic population, specifically to suppress political opposition.
This particular idea has obvious potential and none of it will be good for us.
I have already heard stories of employers demanding access to employee social media accounts, including passwords.
No, let's not do this.
Agreed fully. But we must remember that every single thing for our “protection” has been turned inwards against the American people.
DHS, the PATRIOT Act, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, etc. Examples abound... the Pissgate scam, the Covid scam/bio attack, the 2020 coup, 51 intelligence professionals, and the J6 depredations to support it.
There is little reason to believe this new Border/Customs tool will not be immediately weaponized against us.
“...Who ever supports this needs to be...”
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Why do you object?
I hope they don’t check Free Republic.
I am not in favor of this.
Actually Imstill want DHS disbanded entirely.
I agree with you 100%. 100%. Every person who is not a citizen who comes into this country should be subject to any requirement we impose. If they don't want to do it, simply don't come here.
Why is this controversial? Oh, it is a slippery slope? Not buying it.
The Branch Covidians revealed a deep yearning by the Deep State to turn the U.S. into East China.
Because we want to thoroughly vet foreign visitors looking for potential terrorists we’re turning into China?
“Good luck with finding my “digital past”.”
Unfortunately, posting on FR is going to be a yuge no-no.
I am not applying to enter the USA from some backwater country.
1984, et. al.
Macht Nichts...
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