Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and more oppose the US decree. United States which requires action on the part of visitors who disclose information on social networks

In court documents filed Thursday, social networking sites and the Internet Association, which represent Facebook, Amazon.com, Alphabet and others, have stated that the rules oblige foreigners “to give up their anonymity to travel to the United States” and “to cool many speeches and associative activities”.

The Doc Society and the International Documentary Association filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Washington, DC in December. They said they regularly collaborate with non-American filmmakers and warned that visitors should “consider the risk of an American official misinterpreting their speech on social media, blaming it or scrutinizing it further investigation or delayed prosecutions due to the views they or their contacts have expressed ”.

The last presentation takes place in the middle of a growing dispute between President Donald Trump and tech companies. Twitter Friday he hid a tweet from Trump behind a warning for the first time. It happened hours after Trump signed an executive order threatening Silicon Valley social media companies with new ones. Freedom of Expression Regulations

, after Twitter added a fact-checking tag to two previous tweets.

State Department rules require the disclosure of all social media IDs used in the past five years by U.S. visa applicants. USA, including pseudonyms, on 20 platforms.

Applicants must disclose accounts in:

Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Myspace, Pinterest, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Vine and the Chinese websites Douban, QQ, Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo and Youku; Russian social network VK; The Belgian Twoo site; and the Latvian site Ask.fm.

The Department of Justice has argued in court documents that:

“The information obtained from social media profiles can be used to determine the activity, links or intention that could justify refusing the visa, including criminal acts.”

The State Department says the rules were inspired by the 2017 Trump Order requiring a thorough verification of visa applications. He had previously collected contact information, travel history, family information and previous addresses.

The department receives annually more than 14 million applicants. The only travelers exempt from social media rules are diplomatic and official travelers.