'Censorship pure and simple': critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors'(theguardian.com)
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'Censorship pure and simple': critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/trump-plan-vet-us-visitors-social-media-tourism
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Neither. The goal is to scare people off of criticizing the US in the first place. If you're not going to absolutely and irrevocably boycott the US, then you're going to think twice before posting anything negative.
We don't even have to ever actually implement it. We just have to threaten to. Even if we did implement it, it would probably only be used rarely, because it's a huge effort and will turn up nothing useful, but the chilling effect is immediate and universal.
We don't even have to ever actually implement it. We just have to threaten to. Even if we did implement it, it would probably only be used rarely, because it's a huge effort and will turn up nothing useful, but the chilling effect is immediate and universal.
> I can’t imagine the false positives this will create
But is that much of a problem to the operator? He's sure to use a whitelist.
But is that much of a problem to the operator? He's sure to use a whitelist.
Bored of tariffs, Trump decides to crash the tourism industry, next.
If the goal is real safety, is this actually the data that helps? Or just an easy way to scare off normal visitors?