A proposal by DHS to request information about border-crossers' social media presence. How is this not a violation of the First and Fifth Amendments? I mean, how is this data to be used? Or abused?
US Customs and Border Protection wants to ask for your “online presence” at the border
US Customs and Border Protection wants to ask for your “online presence” at the border
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This might be the best use for goatse.
(If you are one of the few still unfamiliar with this, please don't look it up. It's as unwelcome as this proposal.)
It's a bizarre proposal.
So as an example: I have two blog sites, which are inactive, plus I'm a regular commentator on a handful; I have five personal websites, plus acconts on 8 different social media platforms…more if I remember that I have a Myspace account from 10 years ago. I have at least 10 emails plus a variety of email aliases (forwards that look like other emails, but just hand off to a central id.)
What do they want me to put down…and frankly, if I put all that down, how do they know that I left out my theoretical "terrorist_cell_leader@aol.com" email account, and what do they do if I did?
And on the flip-side can you imagine if INS or DHS pulls me into a room and demands to know why I didn't declare my "Myspace" account, and what am I trying to hide.
I really don't know what they're hoping to get out of this.
+Greg Stockton The obvious blunt force reason is spotting people who host or run or just view "bad" sites, e.g., pro-ISIL boards. But it seems highly unlikely that someone serious about Islamic revolution against the West is going to confess such, so it comes across as simply a weird fishing expedition that will no doubt be misappplied.