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

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523 points sva_ | 10 comments | 18 Jun 25 23:11 UTC | HN request time: 1.101s | source | bottom
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testfoobar ◴[18 Jun 25 23:38 UTC] No.44314177[source]▶
Outside of just wanting privacy for its own sake, there are many, many reasons to keep social media profiles private: health privacy, sexual orientation privacy, relationship privacy, location privacy, financial privacy, etc.

“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said.

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Mountain_Skies ◴[18 Jun 25 23:54 UTC] No.44314266[source]▶
Much of the world is against LBGTQ+ rights. If an immigrant has social media posts expressing open hatred and even calls for violence against people with sexual orientations not approved of in their home culture, will you still have an open mind about welcoming them in the US with open arms?

This isn't theoretical. Both China and India, the two countries that supply the most students to the US, prohibit marriage equality. Both have extensive discrimination throughout their societies, both at the government and cultural levels.

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1. kennywinker ◴[19 Jun 25 00:14 UTC] No.44314358[source]▶
Until 2015 gay marriage was illegal in many states. Plenty here hold pretty nasty anti lgbtq beliefs. This is a bad argument for screening visa applicants for beliefs, and not what this new rule will be used for. It will be used to deny anyone critical of israeli genocide, people who think we shouldn’t destroy the planet’s climate, and people who think women should control their own bodies.
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2. andsoitis ◴[19 Jun 25 03:37 UTC] No.44315220[source]▶
> This is a bad argument for screening visa applicants for beliefs, and not what this new rule will be used for.

And do you think permanent residency or citizen applicants should be screened for their beliefs?

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3. dlahoda ◴[19 Jun 25 04:16 UTC] No.44315384[source]▶
it was for visa while ago

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/dec/07/einstein...

even for jewish nobel laureats in physics

why it should be different for more serious things like residence or citizenship?

4. disgruntledphd2 ◴[19 Jun 25 06:29 UTC] No.44316017[source]▶
What do you call what's happening in Gaza then?
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5. kennywinker ◴[19 Jun 25 06:34 UTC] No.44316053[source]▶
“Curate” away the 4k footage of children, doctors, refugee camps being bombed, aid blockades starving people? Must be nice to have your head in the sand like that. Quibble over the word genocide all you want - it is very clearly a genocide unfolding in front of us.
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6. sibhezt ◴[19 Jun 25 06:54 UTC] No.44316156{3}[source]▶
A war, an armed conflict. Started by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups against Israel, on October 7th 2023.
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7. sibhezt ◴[19 Jun 25 06:58 UTC] No.44316186{3}[source]▶
This is not a genocide. It is a war. A war started by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups on October 7th 2023.
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8. disgruntledphd2 ◴[19 Jun 25 08:34 UTC] No.44316630{4}[source]▶
If it's an armed conflict then it started a long time before that. Otherwise Israel wouldn't have built the hilariously named "Freedom Wall".

It's incredibly depressing that the Jewish people have basically done unto others as was done to them. Even if we don't consider it a genocide, then it's definitely a pogrom and Gaza and the West Bank are ghettos. I would have hoped that at least one people might have learned that this kind of stuff is wrong based on their own history.

But i guess all that we learn from history is that no-one learns from history.

9. immibis ◴[19 Jun 25 15:08 UTC] No.44319372{4}[source]▶
If the war started on Oct 7, why were bombs falling on Oct 6, Oct 5 and Oct 4?
10. kennywinker ◴[19 Jun 25 15:43 UTC] No.44319708{4}[source]▶
This started long before oct 7th, but even if it was started then it wouldn’t make the mass murder and starvation of civilians justified.

Maybe curate your feeds a little better if you actually believe what you’re saying.