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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: 0.001s | 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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koakuma-chan ◴[18 Jun 25 23:52 UTC] No.44314255[source]▶
What? And which social medias am I required to have a profile on?
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Havoc[dead post] ◴[19 Jun 25 00:07 UTC] No.44314328[source]▶
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koakuma-chan ◴[19 Jun 25 00:25 UTC] No.44314396[source]▶
> this is too insane to be reality

Is reality supposed to be less insane than this? Is this even insane in the first place?

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krapp ◴[19 Jun 25 00:46 UTC] No.44314479[source]▶
Yes, and yes.
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koakuma-chan ◴[19 Jun 25 01:42 UTC] No.44314724[source]▶
Well, the guy was elected democratically, and democracy is supposed to work, right? Where did things go wrong? Why do people elect someone and then complain the person is bad? How do people choose who to vote for? What is even the point of complaining, what are you going to do? Elect someone else next time, so that the same thing happens? Revolt? Good luck with that.

What makes you think the world has ever been sane? Tell me what I'm missing, please.

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mcphage ◴[19 Jun 25 02:38 UTC] No.44314952[source]▶
I’m not sure the logic that “he was elected democratically, therefore everything he does is fine and is what people wanted” is sound. I’m not sure why you do.
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koakuma-chan ◴[19 Jun 25 03:42 UTC] No.44315247[source]▶
I'm only saying that, could it be that democracy doesn't actually work? It's not the first time Trump is the president, so he must have done really well for people to elect him again, right? He definitely was not impeached two times, right?

As a voter, who are you supposed to vote for?

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mcphage ◴[19 Jun 25 12:44 UTC] No.44318151[source]▶
> could it be that democracy doesn't actually work?

Clearly it doesn’t work all of the time, but… uh… what does?

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1. koakuma-chan ◴[20 Jun 25 17:58 UTC] No.44330207[source]▶
It's unclear how it was supposed to work in the first place as there is no basis upon which I can decide who to vote for given a number of strangers I don't know anything about. I also know next to nothing about history, politics, economy, law, et cetera. Candidates usually promise things that are easy to understand of course, but as we've seen time and time again there is no consequences for not following through.