US plans to order foreign tourists to disclose social media histories

Australians, New Zealanders and citizens of 40 other visa-exempt countries must disclose five years' worth of social media history to visit the US, under a Trump administration plan.
Applicants would have to submit other "high-value data fields" including phone numbers from the last five years, email addresses from the past decade, personal details of family members and biometric information.
A number of legal and policy experts told The Washington Post the enhanced vetting measures are the latest attempt by the Trump administration to clamp down on critical online speech.

This sounds rather dictatorial, don't you think.
I am sure many wanna-be visitors will no longer choose the US as their holiday destination.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-11/white-house-plans-social-media-requirement-visa-exempt-countries/106128022

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

This sounds rather dictatorial, don't you think.

🙄 Gus... this guy was dictatorial 9 years ago. Nothing changed.

For this guy, the concept of "free speech" is just an aesthetic.

And we don't want to stifle anything. We certainly don't want to stifle free speech, but that's no longer free speech. See, I don't think that the mainstream media is free speech either because it's so crooked. It's so dishonest. So to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad. To me, that's a very dangerous speech, and you become angry at it. But that's not free speech.

- President Donald J. Trump, Social Media Summit 2020, 11th of july 2020