Peloni: If America is a nation founded upon the concept of liberty being the offspring of the divined dignity of men, why is America designing safeguards which ignores the dignity of man and openly defies G_d given rights. Liberty is not a gift of government but the deed on which freedoms are built. The limits of the US govt are clearly enumerated in the Constitution and nothing about what is described here can be honestly be found listed there. Security and emergency powers are the catch phrases on which liberty and freedom are too regularly abandoned, and as Aynaz explains here, this has every aspect of doing exactly this.
The U.S. is preparing to judge human beings by their digital past
Aynaz Anni Cyrus | Dec 11, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a rule that should have sent shockwaves through every newsroom in the country: visitors entering the United States under visa-waiver programs may soon be required to hand over five years of their social-media history before boarding a plane. No context, no criminal suspicion, no triggering event, just a mandatory reveal of your digital life, tied directly to your passport.
On paper, the justification looks familiar. DHS presents the change as a security upgrade, a harmless modernization of screening tools to help identify threats. They repeat the same vocabulary Americans have been conditioned to accept for nearly twenty-five years: risk assessment, extremist detection, foreign influence, and national security, the same language now used to justify everything from online censorship programs to federal ‘misinformation’ monitoring teams.
The phrases sound responsible until you remember that the people most capable of harming the United States do not use traceable social-media accounts under their own names, and never will. The only individuals who will comply are ordinary travelers, the exact population governments always survey first, because they won’t fight back.
The truth is simple. This proposal has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with infrastructure. The United States is building the skeleton of a social-credit system, one that looks different from China’s on the surface but functions with the same relentless logic: link identity to digital behavior, evaluate individuals not by what they do but by what they have said, and create a permanent record that can be used to grant or deny access.
China didn’t begin with “social credit.” It began with real-name online registration, mandatory platform disclosure, automated behavioral analysis, and the normalization of state-monitored digital footprints. America is following the same path, only faster, and with more sophisticated technology and far fewer safeguards at its disposal. Because, unlike China, America has no legal framework at all to limit algorithmic judgment. Once the system exists, nothing restrains how far it expands.
Starting, I believe, in February, even short-stay visitors to the US will be subject the requirements mentioned in the article. So, if I want to visit my cousins in Boston for a week, I shall have to provide all this information. But not only that and this is what the author doesn’t mention. Not only will I have to abide by all these requirements, but I will also have to provide the e-mail addresses for all my relatives and indicate what social media they use. This reminds one of Stalin’s procedure in dealing with ‘undesirable’ elements. Not only were you arrested for a ‘crime’, but also members of your family lost their living and their apartments as well.
I would be in particular trouble and suspicion would arise because I do not belong to any social media platform and have never belonged. And so I do not have any digital record in that regard. Definitely suspicious!
Oh, well, I always wanted to visit Santa Fe. And now, no. I shall have to learn to cope with my disappointment.