Some changes in tourism numbers should be visible from US ski resorts before then.

All is ok now that Trump received the FIFA Peace Prize trophy and wearable medallion.

Considering the amount of people who always go to the World Cup yet is skipping the US-specific events of 2026, I'm not sure it'll be so interesting after all. Will more or less be like how Las Vegas seems to be today, a former shadow of itself.

The what now? Is that like the superbowl?

Why would tourists want to come to a place they dislike?

I don’t go to UK anymore for example.

Sure but they'll make your day extremely unpleasant before deporting you or if a USC letting you in.

A few things that's happened to me as a citizen after invoking right to remain silent to CBP

1) Told I could not enter the country. Held up for 3-24 hours in holding areas. Officials come in and claim they will revoke my passport under "national security"-esque grounds. Lots of bluffing and huffing and puffing. Diesel therapy of being made to go back and forth to interrogating officers and then constantly prodded to be deprived of sleep. After a few shift rotations no one is left that know why you were being fucked with so you then [hopefully] get let go.

2) Dogs constantly come in, none of them alert. Eventually they get tired of finding nothing and write up a fraudulent affadavit for a warrant claiming one alerted anyway. Strip searched, hands cuffed and feet chained, imprisoned in a holding cell with people you can't speak the language of, diesel therapy again in prisoner van driven all over the state. Taken to two different private hospitals where CBP officers claim there is drugs up my ass. Cursed and touched without consent by private hospital staff (oh you can complain to the board as I did, lol, the state board just claims since CBP told them to their license isn't in jeopardy). Hospital staff rack up bills, which are sent to me privately and go to collections. Medical records state nothing was found but they "Think I'm packing drugs" anyway despite absolutely no medical evidence.

Have fun!

That's like saying aircraft inspections is the FAA's job and it's not Boeing's job "to just hand everything over." Entering into a country's borders is a privilege and you submit to an inspection in doing so. One of the very first things the American founding fathers did in 1789 was to create a customs service to perform border inspections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Customs_Service.

A tourist (to any country) has no right to enter. If you don't cooperate they can simply deny your entry.

Then they'll do a quick lookup to confirm if you actually don't have any accounts, and if they find any, they'll reject you because you lied. US agencies already are keeping track of what individuals have what online accounts, so they're asking to confirm, not to learn.

If you truly don't have social media, their search won't show any hits, and there isn't much you can do about it. Just make sure you're actually answering the question truthfully.

I wonder if they'll accept "all I have is a Hacker News account".

My social media is full of rants about the ongoing trend of bringing fascism to the US and the authoritarian and repressive tendencies of the current president.

Am I not allowed to say that?

There's no right to entry at US borders; you can be arbitrarily refused (or much worse) for any subjective suspicion.

(And you are misled by assumptions of privilege, any readers who think this could never happen to you. Your social non-conformity (rejection of social media) is quirky and geeky and completely harmless; and surely the nice government man will understand this).

Precisely speaking, they're looking to catch any critique of Israel because it'll provide a broad dragnet that will exclude a lot of Muslims and libs.

(I'm not just saying this to be inflammatory. We already know the administration has been going after legal immigrants on the basis of criticisms of Israel. This is a completely reasonable connection to this social media policy.)

Of course. And it's not just surveillance, it's censorship and narrative shaping -- doing a convenient end-run around the first amendment's prohibition on government infringing speech.

It’s Israel. They own the US government, especially Trump. The media takeovers this year were all instigated by pro-Israel interests, they didn’t like how the narrative was being spun on TikTok and Twitter so they got Ellison (one of the biggest donors to the IDF) to buy the first and Elon to clean up the second and now you can’t find any media about Gaza on either platform. There’s a former IDF agent running content moderation at Meta. Now they’re trying to buy Warner Brothers because they don’t like all the celebrities and news channels speaking out on Gaza and want to blacklist them. All of this talk about antisemitism on social media is being intentionally conflated with antizionism. They lost control of the narrative because of all these alternative media sources that have popped up thanks to the open Internet, and they’re trying to clamp back down on it.

Even HN censors discussions about this topic. Note that the Krugman post is flagged in spite of meeting every criteria for an HN post. This one will be too, any post that raises criticism of Israel or this rise in tech-fascism gets flagged now.

They have common interests.

Governments around the world criticise social media and tech giants but they still work with them because they want the concentration of power to enable surveillance.

> while other forms such as anti-black or anti-Latino harassment is not

probably because they don't have their own AIPAC.

> Also funny how anti-Semitic harassment is emphasized, while other forms such as anti-black or anti-Latino harassment is not.

That's because they're using "perpetrating antisemitism" as code for "not supporting Israel" rather than making a genuine attempt at curtailing actual discrimination, antisemitic or otherwise.

Laws are not enforced by machines, but by humans.

The answer to all of those is "yes" and they will not bother to find them, they will ask you to list them. Omitting information or providing false information on your visa application is a felony.

It's the same logic as behind the "Are you a terrorist?" question. Lying is itself a crime, and can be used to prosecute you in the future.

You seem to be one of those silly people who conflate antisemitism with disliking how the state of Israel behaves under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu.

These are not equivalent concepts.

Including Republicans in the Young Republican club…

With so much browser fingerprinting and the biggest social networks being US companies, I wouldn't be surprised if already a company like Palanti has a dataset with all your history

Then just say that. Customs has some list that's automatically generated based on a Google search or something like that, and all they're doing is trying to catch you lying. Like the TSA, this screening is done by the lowest common denominator of government employee to catch the lowest common denominator of terrorist or foreign subversive.

Your comment history is very odd. You talk about America as though you are a citizen but several of your comments have grammatical errors that indicate you are a foreigner.