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This is already happening if you want to visit the US. Customs officers will look at your social media accounts to make sure you are compliant.

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surveillance of foreigners (particularly) with residence in a different country is a different issue from surveillance of own citizens.

And the neat part is that you can have agreements within a group of countries (say about five) to have them surveil your citizens and share what they find with you while you do the same for them.

or you do like EU and just hand over your own citizens' data to non-EU countries.

(for example: https://www.dw.com/en/eu-weighs-giving-us-data-for-fewer-tra...)

Technically true but as the commentator below you says, easily circumvented. Perhaps it's better to think of privacy/freedom of thought as a global human right...

The state does not make a difference. It is an illusion that the "own" citizens are worth anything to the state. You are workers, aka capital, nothing more.

The truth is that 'foreigner' is a term invented by states to create a distinction where there is mostly no difference. I have more in common with a normal citizen from elsewhere than I do with Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos.

We're been doing this for years in the UK. Not just at airports either, but the police actively surveil social media and arrest people for anything that might be considered remotely offensive.

And if you say you don't have any, they'll assume you're lying and deny you.

It's good that I don't have any reason to go to the US.

As you can see, it's quickly coming to other countries near you.

I have wondered that. I have this one and a very VERY bland Facebook that I post something stupid on every 12 months or so. So in a strange way I have accidentally shielded myself.

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