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

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SuperNinKenDo ◴[19 Jun 25 00:09 UTC] No.44314336[source]▶
Free speech for me but not for thee.

America holds immense leverage when it comes to education, and now it seeks to use that leverage to export control of people's speech, thoughts, and movements abroad.

At least when China does this kinda thing there's not so strong a stench of hypocrisy.

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olalonde ◴[19 Jun 25 02:39 UTC] No.44314960[source]▶
Even China doesn't do this. I've crossed the border hundreds of times and was never asked to hand over electronic devices - in fact, they barely asked any questions at all. In contrast, my few experiences crossing the U.S. and Canadian borders were much more invasive (I'm Canadian).
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1. SuperNinKenDo ◴[19 Jun 25 23:16 UTC] No.44323381[source]▶
I am from Australia where China has flexed its trade leverage on a pretty much yearly basis against us as a collective, and has often tried to use our University systems supposed reliance on Chinese students to try and affect discourse in our Universities.

But even then, China doesn't stoop to the pathetic level of expending thus kind of soft-power on defending some third power that has managed to get it by the balls.