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

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Post by hearsathought » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

absurdo wrote: post #104

hearsathought wrote: post #102

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> I don't get why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications. Since almost all major social media companies are american, and all major social media/tech companies are state/defense companies, the US already "vets" social media accounts of foreigners and most likely americans as well. This has nothing to do with "vetting" social media accounts. It's about scaring the wo…

> It's about scaring the world so that the world stops criticizing primarily israel. You should back up this assertion with facts and evidence otherwise nobody will take it at face value and it will be categorized as drivel.

Facts and evidence? I explained to you my reasoning. If you disagree with it fine. Let me ask you, why do you think this is happening all of a sudden? To "vet" foreigners? Yeah right. As I said, if we wanted weed out undesirable foreigners, we would want them to post freely on social media with any fear of repercussion. We wouldn't warn them about potentially having their social media scrutinized.

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

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Post by hearsathought » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #110

absurdo wrote: post #104

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> It's about scaring the world so that the world stops criticizing primarily israel. You should back up this assertion with facts and evidence otherwise nobody will take it at face value and it will be categorized as drivel.

It’s a green account whose entire comment history is railing on a single topic without ever citing sources. Flag and move on.

You keep breaking hn guidelines. Go outside and touch grass buddy.

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

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Post by jacob_a_dev » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 6:30 PM UTC

mtnGoat wrote: post #92

jacob_a_dev wrote: post #55

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When it comes to allowing foreighn students to come to US, which from my understanding is a likely path to citizenship, the executive branch gets to decide, which is basically elected by 51% of population every 4 years. I prefer the exec branch over no purity test, or delegating to some other "expert" institution.

51% of the voting population. Not the majority of the population. Big difference in numbers there, only 65.3% participated. So, less than a third of Americans voted for the current president… why people don’t vote, I’ll never understand.

51% of the electorate is expected given we live in a 2 party political system

i dont care about the opinion of people who dont care to vote

absentee balots for those who cant get to a polling station is pretty reasonable nowadays

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

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Post by ryeats » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 7:27 PM UTC

zug_zug wrote: post #134

ryeats wrote: post #115

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This is naive, it's clear that someone without a stake in a country could just be an agent provocateur.

I feel like this is a ridiculous bad-faith argument. You know damned well that banning people from the country for having a JD vance meme on their phone is not stopping international agents. Arguing by presently demonstrably false hypotheticals as though they were reality makes me think it's a waste of everybody's breath talking to you.

It would be a stupid position. I was failing to explain that not all rights like the freedom of speech necessarily make sense to apply to foreigners who are given the privilege to enter the country. I am not necessarily firm in this position the other poster made an argument that they can speak because what does it matter which is a good point.

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

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Post by mtnGoat » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 5:42 AM UTC

jacob_a_dev wrote: post #153

mtnGoat wrote: post #92

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51% of the voting population. Not the majority of the population. Big difference in numbers there, only 65.3% participated. So, less than a third of Americans voted for the current president… why people don’t vote, I’ll never understand.

51% of the electorate is expected given we live in a 2 party political system i dont care about the opinion of people who dont care to vote absentee balots for those who cant get to a polling station is pretty reasonable nowadays

That’s not the point and I agree with you. The point was that no where near the majority voted for him since so many didn’t vote at all.