US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples
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#2Thankfully not HN but enough deep links to Reddit and it will join the list methinks.
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#3What happens when you lose an account now? Or if you close an account on a service that doesn't reserve usernames (e.g. Twitter)? All of a sudden someone is using "yourname" on twitter to say something the US immigration officers don't like. That's not far fetched at all
Re: US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples
#4Can someone familiar with the Visa process describe other personal information that is required so that we can compare the level of invasiveness?
Re: US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples
#5Can someone familiar with the Visa process describe other personal information that is required so that we can compare the level of invasiveness?
Travel History, relatives etc. This is definitely a step above.
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#6I’ve probably created at least 50 reddit throwaways in the past 5 years...the platform encourages it. No way I’d be able to remember them all, and I’m sure lots of other people are in the same boat.
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#7The retrospective nature of this seems most problematic: the question is being introduced now but applies to the past 5 years, including to pseudonymous accounts such as Reddit. And whatever service isn't on there now that you feel safe using could be on there tomorrow, just as retrospectively.
That means that services which the user may have considered as platforms for anonymous free speech are being now retrospectively turned into identified speech. This seems to, either by intent or as a side effect, significantly compromise the whole idea of anonymous speech on the internet. For example, there must be many people who, prior and during the 2016 election campaign posted some pretty extreme comments about Donald Trump. Having those now re-interpreted as public statements on their visa applications in the light of him being president could be extremely worrying. There will be people already living in the US who have to fill these forms just to stay and their entire livelihoods could be threatened by not receiving a visa renewal.
In other words, it seems like this decision could have a massive chilling effect on speech everywhere, which is a really big concern.
Re: US Visa Forms DS-160, 260 Has Social Media Questions Now – Samples
#8The retrospective nature of this seems most problematic: the question is being introduced now but applies to the past 5 years, including to pseudonymous accounts such as Reddit. And whatever service isn't on there now that you feel safe using could be on there tomorrow, just as retrospectively. That means that services which the user may have considered as platforms for anonymous free speech are being now retrospecti…
Foreigners do not have a right to free speech.
It is a grave weakness in the American constitution that the rights of foreign nationals have not been declared or compared to the actual nationals. On this particular regard the Argentina constitution really upended the American one with its preamble declaring: this constitution is made to protect the liberties [...] of all those who wish to live in Argentinian soil.
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#9What if there was a GDPR removal request?
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#10A while back I tried to sign up for Airbnb, but it was impossible to verify my identity without providing social media accounts. (At the time I didn't use Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., and the photo ID upload verification failed.)
Due this experience, I later created Facebook and Instagram profiles populated with minimal personal information and a few friends just so I could prove I existed..
For these new visa requirements, at what point does NOT having social media accounts become suspicious, a red flag warranting more in-depth review? And how useful is the requirement if the natural response is to just create filler social media accounts?