US demands social media details from visa applicants
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#2"The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phone numbers.
When proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually." [0]
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#3All the more reason to not have them. Though email addresses? Are they demanding all pen-names too?
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#4“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”
Immigrants are non-citizens are among the weakest members of American society (an outsize number of laws that impact them and zero capacity to participate in its political machinery)
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#5Do I have to submit all my spam email addresses as well? Madness
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#7This will have a chilling effect on speech in this country, which is extremely sad. Academic and trade conferences would be best taken elsewhere. And job seekers? Prefer remote.
For me as an American, this is, I guess, fine now. I won't be affected right away. But I fully expect other countries to institute reciprocal policies.
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#8Just filled in ESTA application, it is not demanded as the question regarding social media does not have to be answered.
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#9Do I have to submit all my spam email addresses as well? Madness
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#10This will have a chilling effect on speech in this country, which is extremely sad. Academic and trade conferences would be best taken elsewhere. And job seekers? Prefer remote. For me as an American, this is, I guess, fine now. I won't be affected right away. But I fully expect other countries to institute reciprocal policies.
1) Doesn't the First Amendment restrict the US government from curtailing free expression and free association anyplace, not just within US borders?
2) Isn't anything that results in a "chilling effect" tantamount to restriction?
I expect this will have a chilling effect abroad, among people who travel to the US, more than within the US.