A tyrannical state always demands more from foreigners than it demands from its own citizens ! The Trump administration now requires visa exempt foreign visitors to provide their social media activity for the past five years. And some other electronic informations.
Visa Waiver Program countries, including France, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, Japan, and South Korea, require prior Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). Social media is a new « mandatory data element » for any application for travel authorization.
The data fields collected include phone numbers used in the past five years and email addresses used in the past ten. ESTA applicants must also provide information about their family members—including names, phone numbers, dates of birth, places of birth, and addresses.
I am a big soccer fan because of my Italian roots. I wanted to invite some family members to come to California to cheer on their national team. They told me they were going to give up. They were communists in their youth. Even if they vote for Giorgia Meloni today, they’re afraid of spending their holidays in an american jail, deprived of World Cup. The « weather » must be really bad for an Italian to give up on supporting one match of his favorite team. The stadiums of the FIFA World Cup 2026 will remain empty.
And after requesting all this information from foreigners, the tyrannical state will demand it from its own citizens : to persecute all those who do not think the right way. The United States has truly become a shithole country.