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

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523 points sva_ | 1 comments | 18 Jun 25 23:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.327s | source
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angst ◴[18 Jun 25 23:50 UTC] No.44314242[source]▶
also, "lack of a social media profile could prompt US visa denial"

source https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/study/now-lack-of-a...

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colinbartlett ◴[19 Jun 25 00:04 UTC] No.44314314[source]▶
Absolutely insane. Until recently, I had none. Now I at least have a LinkedIn account. My mother has no social media at all.
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wombatpm ◴[19 Jun 25 03:02 UTC] No.44315074[source]▶
New business idea- AI powered burner profiles. Company starts building generic profiles that follow acceptable account, occasionally likes some or posts some lame LLM generated posts. Some point in the future company sells you access to the account.
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TZubiri ◴[19 Jun 25 04:07 UTC] No.44315343[source]▶
That's against ToS, you are on the wrong ethical side. This is the technology and behaviour patterns that fraudsters use, you would be indistinguishable from an enemy .
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areyourllySorry ◴[19 Jun 25 06:27 UTC] No.44316007[source]▶
the very legally binding novel-sized tos? the tos they change as often as they like to benefit only them? nobody is ethical here - they abuse us, we abuse them
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1. TZubiri ◴[19 Jun 25 12:39 UTC] No.44318108[source]▶
Yeah.Those rules protect websites from spam for example, and in the case of more serious sites like linkedin, fraud.

If you go deep into this route you'll end up using proxies to rotate ips, which are sometimes obtained through compromised devices.

One thing is the theory, but look into how this is done, robotic interfaces like with selenium, shady proxies, account markets, you get a feel of exactly what type of people use this. If you into forums there's a lot of third worlders that go as far as using or selling fakepassports to make LI accounts.