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US Customs and Border Protection wants to ask for your "online presence" at the border
“Please enter information associated with your online presence—Provider/Platform—Social media identifier.” It will be an optional data field, but of course, CBP screeners may subject travellers who decline to reveal their online names for additional scrutiny.
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Can you imagine just how much fun I would have! "Hi officer!!!!!! I'm a pirate!!! Want to see pictures of me as a pirate? Do you have 3 hours? Have you accepted Black Beard as your saviour!!!!! Oh and we can listen to 70's rock while we discuss pirates!!! .... What do you mean move along? I thought we were buddies :l"
"I don't have one." Lie your ass off, it's what they do. Turnabout is fair play.
While it's not illegal for law enforcement agents to lie to you, it is illegal for you to lie to them.
I take pains to keep my real identity separate from my online activity. To that end, I also have a social media account that's directly linked to my real identity. If they want to see that, they're welcome to it. I refuse to volunteer more information than that.
typetty-type-typitty-clack...we've noted that sir. Have a good day.
Do you know who I am?
No, I don't.
Exactly. Have a good day.
I would simply lie. I don't go by the name on my ID, so they could take my ID and search all they want for me online, they will never find it. To be clear- I've never been called by my real name from the day I was born. I was named after a relative out of respect, but my mom and dad wanted to call me a different name, so that's the name they always used and the name everybody calls me.
In addition, while it's illegal to lie to an "official", I don't have enough respect for them or the law to care.
Whether or not you have respect for them or the law, if they catch you lying to them they'll make you regret it.
That is true. I've paid the price for my, as my first grade teacher so aptly put it, "Lack of Respect for Authority". I tried to tell them then, and I will tell you now: It's not that I don't respect authority, I simply do not recognize authority. The concept, as I write it, just seems so weird that people think they have some Divine Right to tell other people what to do.
Edit- With that said, I'm always open to suggestion and conversation.