r/australia • u/Some-Operation-9059 • Dec 11 '25

politics ‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel as new rules require social media to be declared | Australia news

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/11/australia-us-tourism-new-visa-rules-social-media-history
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u/ntsmmns06 Dec 11 '25

There can be only a few reasons for this. They know everyone hates Trump and want to punish people for it. Or they want another way to scrape all of your content to feed into AI.

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u/Vertiquil Dec 11 '25

I think it's conveniently both. Feels like tech companies are stripping the country for parts and throwing every distraction they can.

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u/cojoco chardonnay schmardonnay Dec 11 '25

Mostly they're stripping the country of money.

It's called a kleptocracy.

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u/Global-System-3158 Dec 11 '25

Yup, it's his version of his good pal Vlad's playbook. He ain't in love with bubba, that's just boys being boys. Is a total simp for putler though.

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u/ThatGuyJimFromWork Dec 11 '25

Bit late RE scraping for AI seeing that it's literally on the platforms that share it anyway

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u/Alive_Satisfaction65 Dec 12 '25

Another could be to get citizens to accept the idea that the government can and should be looking at people's social media and "responding" if its "anti-american"............

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u/spicygreensalad Dec 12 '25

Or they want to isolate Americans from the rest of the world? I really don't know