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New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

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523 points sva_ | 2 comments | 18 Jun 25 23:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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justahuman74 ◴[18 Jun 25 23:25 UTC] No.44314117[source]▶
I guess students will have to delete all social media before applying?
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kergonath ◴[18 Jun 25 23:28 UTC] No.44314125[source]▶
Until an empty account is seen as a red flag. The thing is, they do not need a reason to reject visa applications. This will just provide more pretexts and more power trips for border control agents and embassy bureaucrats.
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1. ASinclair ◴[18 Jun 25 23:51 UTC] No.44314250[source]▶
Simple, just use AI tools to generate fake profiles that seem normal enough to pass inspection by some random State Department employee.
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2. makeitdouble ◴[19 Jun 25 00:14 UTC] No.44314360[source]▶
And that's kind of the point: have social media mostly filled with apolitical or at least non controversial content.

As other pointed out, border control is already an area where an agent can stop basically anyone without any provable justification. More that this specific rule, the whole social climate needs to change to ever get back to a balanced situation.