'Censorship pure and simple': critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors' social media

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"Wow — even China doesn't do this," Bethany Allen, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Head of China investigations, wrote on X.

"Buckle up, US airlines, hotels, hospitality companies, places like NY, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Hawaii. Market share will shift to places that welcome tourists," pollster and strategist Bruce Anderson wrote on X.

"Oh the irony! Especially given their rhetoric on 'free speech' vis a vis Europe. Incidentally this is something we often believe China is doing but that's not true at all: I researched it and there's never been a case of a tourist stopped at the Chinese border for what they posted on social media (they don't ask, don't check and don't care). So we're now in a world where the US ironically might have the singlemost restrictive policy on free speech in the world when it comes to this," entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand wrote on X.

"BREAKING: The tourism industry is COLLAPSING because of Trump," Spencer Hakimian, founder of Tolou Capital Management, wrote on X.

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