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

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64 points djoldman | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 19:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.318s | source
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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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tuyguntn ◴[28 Jun 25 12:00 UTC] No.44404040[source]▶
Do you think US embassy will reject political activism if it was against China?
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efitz ◴[28 Jun 25 13:46 UTC] No.44404667[source]▶
Do you think you would be granted a visa by China if your social media was full of anti-China rhetoric?
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1. tuyguntn ◴[28 Jun 25 15:32 UTC] No.44405410[source]▶
it's strange that you are comparing democracy with a communism.

Wasn't the whole premise of democracy to express yourself freely and the core idea was "rule by the people"?

If country claims that they are democracy, then they should give people to add their opinion to rule the country, China is following its own core idea, ruled by a single party.