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

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64 points djoldman | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 19:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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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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1. 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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2. 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.