I mean, even democratic countries are using mass surveillance, not just autocratic ones. So I think, just like with mass surveilance, this “Social Media Investigation” would become the next step in the evolution of how technology is used against us, every country is gonna start scanning your social media.
I’m calling this now: It’ll be even worse than you think, because “investigating” everyone this way would require a completely unrealistic amount of effort, because you’d have to review possibly decades worth of social media activity right then and there when the prospective entrant is standing at the customs desk. Nobody could possibly do that.
So these idiots will just use AI to do it for them, and as we all know full well the AI will return Earth-shatteringly wrong results pretty much all the time.
You already have to give them your Social Media Accounts when you’re applying for ESTA
Not like due process will exist to rule out those mistakes though.
Tbh the only country I ever worry about will actively try to deport me for just trying to be a tourist, on some bogus charge after checking social media, would be the US. Can’t ever think of any other country that would care or act with the same sense of superiority as the US.
US is also like the only country, as far as I know, in the world that presumes you want to immigrate there and you have to prove them otherwise to be let through
EU countries aren’t exactly fond of, say, anti israel protests, because they always conflate anti-zionism with anti-semiticism.
There are some EU countries who are way too fond of Israel but even still, people have more freedom of speech there than those in the US
Bullshit.
If you get violent or say forbidden stuff, like Israel has no right to exist, you will get problems. Otherwise not
I fear this has the potential of becoming the copied standard unfortunately. Fear of terrorism is like think of the children. All it will do is force people who need visas into having squeaky clean innocuous public profiles and operating anonymous accounts with actual opinions. Terrorists will do the same. So this privacy infringement will only catch really dumb people.
