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>>el_dud+(OP)
The US is forcing its tourists to give away a list of all their social media accounts and all their email accounts. If you're a foreign journalist writing pseudonymously for your safety, you must now share that information with the US government to enter the country. This isn't quite on the level of forcing people to install malware on their phone yet, but give it a couple years.

>>murbar+04
How is this enforcable? ...or is it just the accounts that you will be using while in the US? Technically this seems difficult to enforce.

>>beauze+w4
You can potentially be permanently banned from entering the US if you lie or omit information.

>>gregli+15
Remember what name you used on that obscure forum you signed up for just to read a single answer in a single thread? No? Well, sucks to be you.

I'm guessing in 99% of cases this information is either ignored or dumped into a database where a surveillance dragnet will lightly touch every record regularly looking for specific matches.

But in the remaining 1% it will be abused to skirt around someone's human rights.

And maybe they're hoping to catch some really dumb terrorists that write down the "Death to America" forum on that list.

I do find it interesting that the form is not compatible with anonymous posting like 4chan.