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I never thought we’d get to a place where handing over five years of your social media would feel like the least invasive part of entering the United States as a tourist, but here we are.

The Department of Homeland Security is proposing new rules for people using the ESTA system. These are visitors from places like the EU, the UK, Australia, Japan, and the rest of the Visa Waiver countries. People who currently don’t need a visa. And the list of what they’ll be required to hand over reads like something ripped from a security state fever dream.

Tourists would need to turn in: • Every social media account from the last five years • Full biometrics: face, fingerprints, iris scan, and yes, DNA • All phone numbers from the last five years • All email addresses from the last ten • IP addresses and metadata from any photos they submit • Names of immediate family members • Family members’ phone numbers from the last five years • Their dates and places of birth • Where they live • All business phone numbers from the last five years • All business emails from the last ten

And that’s just to come here on vacation. If you’re someone who actually needs a visa, I’d brace for something even more extreme.

This isn’t rumor or speculation. It’s right there in DHS documentation.

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Yeah I thought the same, I was going to post Major record labels shareholders urge Spotify, Apple Music and others to raise subscription prices amid inflation concerns. As someone else said, fuck Spotify.

“Major record labels urge Spotify, Apple Music and others to raise subscription prices amid inflation concerns.” Wouldn’t this be the opposite of what consumers need when affected by inflation?

Thanks and yes I’m comfortable with English as my first language. I was trying to post my comment with respect for OP. A QWERTY keyboard has the U and I together, my phone keyboard sucks for sure.

Hey just a heads up, you added an extra “to become” in your title. Anyway great question, I’ve always wondered this, hopefully someone knows better.

Perhaps the growth of everyone placing files on clouds these days may be contribute to its inpopularity, or simply because the name just got lumped together with copyright infringement.

Interesting, I’m also feeling a bit disenfranchised. Why all the downvotes on this post? Wait, let’s check who these evil downvoters are… Yeah case in point, I see the problem here as this could lead to malicious trolling and the start of an undesirable platform.

Edit: lemvotes throws a 404 not found so did the fediverse dodge a bullet?

Grazie.

Are we sure nobody pushed him?

So he was drunk all his time? I guess we can take the vote back then ¯_(ツ)_/¯

For those of you American’s who might want to contact these Senators to give them some feedback:

https://www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/contact/connect/

https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/ https://sengov.com/pennsylvania/john-fetterman/

https://www.kaine.senate.gov/contact

https://www.rosen.senate.gov/email-jacky/

https://www.hassan.senate.gov/contact

https://www.shaheen.senate.gov/contact/contact-jeanne

https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/

https://www.king.senate.gov/contact

I may be wrong here but at this point and without Trump evoking the insourction act, can’t the guard by law object to any deployment under the “posse comitatus” doctrine?

And the viral TikTok creator is crushing it on clicks. I don’t think this is going away anytime soon.

Absolutely, one of the best organ grooves in my opinion came from Jon Lord’s Hammond C3 organ on “Lazy”, specifically from the album Made in Japan. Boomer gold!

Not sure why the downvotes but Wikipedia says you are right.

“Cwtch is a Welsh word that means a cuddle or embrace, often associated with feelings of warmth and safety. It can also refer to a small space or cubbyhole for storing things safely.”

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I use it, great app but I have seen my VPN blocked every once in a while. I end up changing IP addresses three or four times before it works again.

Own it. It should be since inauguration day January 20th.

So interesting that you keep on using this derogatory term peon, like you have a disdain for the working class. Words like crybabies, smoothed brain, I’m surprised that you are receiving so much flack here on Lemmy because you’re such a sweetheart moonluna, perhaps there is a correlation with your handle and the subject matter of this post.

One thing I’ve noticed lately is when you’re listening to an album in playlist format, and one of the tracks is an endless diatribe about some useless crypto scam, some get rich quick scheme masquerading as an actual song title from the album.