Chris, “extreme digital vetting” could be about to get a lot worse for people visiting the U.S.

The Trump administration has proposed a new rule that would force every single person who needs a visa to enter the U.S. for tourism, work or immigration to provide five years of social media history.1

That’s 14.7 million people per year — tourists, business travellers, students, academics, and potential immigrants — who will face government bureaucrats scouring through everything they've posted online to qualify for a visa.2

But most importantly, it would have a massive chilling effect on freedom of expression for everyone around the world. It sends a message that at any point, governments could change the rules to make anything anyone has ever tweeted or instagrammed a basis for making decisions about their ability to visit, work in, or move to another country.

Right now, the U.S. State Department is running a public consultation “from all interested individuals and organizations” that will decide whether this rule goes forward or not. Can you leave a comment against this new proposal?

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This proposal is just another step towards ever more extreme monitoring of social media by the Trump administration. Just a few months ago, this rule was put in place for a small group of visa seekers who were selected for additional screening.

Now we are seeing it expanded to every single person who needs a visa to visit the U.S. If we don’t stop this proposal now, we could even see this type of rule applied to even wider groups of people in the future.

MAKE YOUR COMMENT NOW!

Worryingly, there’s no indication of what sorts of posts would lead to an applicant being denied a visa, no guidance as to what counts as a social media handle, and no effective checks on the decisions made as a result of this screening.3

There is simply no doubt that the real effect of this rule on free speech is that people will be afraid to post opinions that are critical of the U.S. administration or policies online. Internet users everywhere are at risk of self-censorship. We need to stand up together to protect our privacy and freedom of expression.

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Victoria at OpenMedia

PS. Even short individual comments with personal arguments are much more impactful than multiple identical comments. Taking action on this is more than a simple click, but I’ve also prepared some easy notes to help you leave your comment on our action page. Thank you again!

Footnotes:
[1] State Dept. Wants to Expand Social Media Collection to All Visa Applicants:
EFF
[2] State Department may force all US visa applicants to disclose social media accounts:
TechRepublic
[3] ACLU Comment on Supplemental Questions for Visa Applicants:
ACLU

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Comment by Chris of the family Masters on May 1, 2018 at 4:01am

I think this would only apply to the white people, mainly tourists. All illegals get cherished having voting rights, drivers licenses etc. 

Looks like this is an attack on digital freedom around the world. On the watch of great Donald Trump.

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