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Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening

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64 points djoldman | 9 comments | 24 Jun 25 19:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source | bottom
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jan_Sate ◴[28 Jun 25 10:50 UTC] No.44403737[source]▶
I don't get why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications. If someone's having ill intent, one could easily create a burner account and fill in some random content for the sake of getting thru the visa application. Or they could even just purchase an account somewhere on the internet.

Sad to see what US has become.

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DragonStrength ◴[28 Jun 25 11:33 UTC] No.44403912[source]▶
No one is pretending this is about terrorism now. They're explicit this is about curbing political activism by foreign students. Some outside the US miss that because few countries would have given foreign students this much room for activism in the first place.
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1. mandmandam ◴[28 Jun 25 12:33 UTC] No.44404238[source]▶
> They're explicit this is about curbing political activism by foreign students.

Freedom of assembly is a universal human right; not that anyone seriously expects respect for those from the US any more.

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2. mensetmanusman ◴[28 Jun 25 13:31 UTC] No.44404594[source]▶
Except the US views it as its right to assemble who it wants to allow in. Same right, different perspective.
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3. happymellon ◴[28 Jun 25 13:55 UTC] No.44404724[source]▶
How so?

It doesnt even seem remotely the same.

That would be the right to prevent assembly.

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4. mensetmanusman ◴[28 Jun 25 14:11 UTC] No.44404828{3}[source]▶
A team assembling on the playground that doesn’t pick all the friends who want to play together has prevented the friends from assembling.

Assembly amongst all groups simultaneously isn’t possible with humans who are not bifurcating bosons.

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5. pastage ◴[28 Jun 25 14:30 UTC] No.44404968[source]▶
This is not remotely true. Of course it is denied if you can classify it as violent.
6. JumpCrisscross ◴[28 Jun 25 16:25 UTC] No.44405909[source]▶
> a universal human right

This concept has been dead outside Europe since at least the 1990s. (It never found purchase in Russia, China or India.)

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7. mindslight ◴[28 Jun 25 16:47 UTC] No.44406111[source]▶
No, "the US" does not. Maybe the fascists currently in power are twisting words like that though, just as they twist every other lofty ideal into a rationalization for hurting people.
8. happymellon ◴[28 Jun 25 17:01 UTC] No.44406247{4}[source]▶
That doesn't make sense.

Just because you used a word in a sentence doesn't make it so.

> A team assembling on the playground that doesn’t pick all the friends who want to play together has prevented the friends from assembling.

They haven't prevented anything. Just because a team assembled, does not exclude others from being there.

They can exclude, of course, but that has nothing to do with the assembly.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/assembl...

> uncountable noun

> When you refer to rights of assembly or restrictions on assembly, you are referring to the legal right that people have to gather together

It's the gathering thats the assembly, not the exclusion. You just made that up.

9. mandmandam ◴[28 Jun 25 23:29 UTC] No.44409043[source]▶
... That's not remotely true. Hypocrisy on the issue of human rights doesn't negate their existence in frameworks or as ideals that have motivated real progress. And, ignorance of human rights work outside of Europe doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Finally, Europe doesn't have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to human rights hypocrisy either, even if they're some of the best of a bad lot.