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

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523 points sva_ | 3 comments | 18 Jun 25 23:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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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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UncleMeat ◴[19 Jun 25 01:16 UTC] No.44314615[source]▶
The only students who've ever called me a homophobic slur were born in the US.
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eddythompson80 ◴[19 Jun 25 03:08 UTC] No.44315097[source]▶
Man, I'm sorry to tell you. But you must not have been around the world much.
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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[19 Jun 25 05:28 UTC] No.44315720[source]▶
> you must not have been around the world much

Gay man here. Multi-ethnic, world travelled.

American evangelicals are up there with the mullahs in opposing both free society and everything Christ preached.

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2. throwaway290 ◴[19 Jun 25 10:29 UTC] No.44317217[source]▶
Your comparison of Muslims and American evangelicals has self selecting bias. There are places where non straight orientation is punishable by law or extrajudicially. Maybe they call you homophobic slurs but you might not walk to tell the tale. None of those places are Catholic as far as I know. One or two of them bordering Israel. In Russia if it's not done by Muslim extremists than by fascists/activists or by government classifying LGBT as extremism. (This is not anti Russian propaganda, it's in the laws. I lived in Russia for most of my life and I met let me count... zero gay people that I know of. But I know some forever unmarried people, I wonder what's going on;)
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3. JumpCrisscross ◴[19 Jun 25 15:12 UTC] No.44319409[source]▶
> There are places where non straight orientation is punishable by law or extrajudicially

I didn’t mean to suggest the comparison was exhaustive. Just that both those groups, if they had control of a state, would do exactly this. (And when they have had such control, they have. See American evangelical effects on liberty in their African missions.)