Scary stuff. I don't have social media, but from time to time I would create and delete Facebook/Twitter/Instagram accounts. Never posted anything. Just used them for auth/developer/Marketplace...etc. But I don't know all the logins I used in the past... So if I fail to provide a login to an empty profile, do I get permabanned from the US?
US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
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#12Here's my, um, hacker news account name. Yes it is social media. And here's my... um... yeah I remember now my orkut login.
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#13Haven't these guys heard of the "reciprocity principle"?
When I went to Brazil a few years ago, the basic price for a tourist visa was like $25 and could be done online. But, if you were a US citizen, it cost $150 and you had to schedule an attend an interview in person -- because, those were the costs and burdens placed on Brazilian citizens to apply for a US visa.
Does the US want other countries inspecting our citizens' social media posts for the last five years?
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#14I think what the US wants is for nobody to visit them any more. For nobody to do trade with them any more. Basically Shogunate Japan?
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#15> The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public. Good thing I have no interest in visiting the land of the "free" anytime soon.
Yeah that country is toast, better look elsewhere.
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#16It seems to me one of the methods of control in oppressive States is to have a multitude of rules, which are impractical to actually adhere to, where failure to adhere provides leverage to State - a "justification" for State to then do whatever it is it decides to do with you (such as deportation without due process).
Exactly. Another case where this happens is with credit/point based systems for things like settlement/citizenship that effectively allows governments to discriminate freely based on vague criteria.
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#17It's infuriating that we're slamming the door on legal immigration because we couldn't fix illegal immigration.
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#18well I hope I will have no reason to go to the US anytime soon
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#19Yeah, nobody's going to be doing this. Depending on their definition of 'social media', this could be hundreds of usernames for some of us, many of which have been long forgotten.
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#20> Omitting social media information could lead to “visa denial and ineligibility” for future visas, the embassy added.
The state capture by big tech is getting insane. No national ID because privacy and government overreach but sure force everyone to register an account with a private entity that specifically profits by selling your personal information.
I am curious if they'll reject me for not having any active mainstream social media accounts. I suppose I'll find out next year. Might make a few accounts to automate with LLMs and Stable Diffusion with pro-Trump content just in case when I get time on the weekends.