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

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

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Post by marcinzm »

apwell23 wrote: post #35
jan_Sate wrote: post #3

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.

Doing that would be visa fraud. Why create any rule if ppl can commit fraud anyways? Why ask for educational qualifications for h1b because ppl can create fake certificates( many do) ?

Because then anyone can be deported at any time without any more process needed since it's visa fraud. Maybe even get your citizenship revoked one day given how things are going.

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

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Post by danielktdoranie »

I completely support the vigorous vetting of non-citizen seeking entry into the U.S.A. For any non-citizens entering the U.S.A. is a privilege and not a right. They are guests in the U.S.A. and need to respect their host country and its laws.

Regarding the auditing social media, it's not just about their posts, but who they are friends with and who are friends with them. Point and case, your personal social media profile may be benign photos of kittens and snaps of what you had to eat that day, but your brother could be "friends" with terrorist or member of a criminal gang and that person could use your relationship with your bother to extort you after you enter the U.S.A.

Biden's administration let at least 2700 Tren de Aragua gang members walk across the southern boarder. ICE and DHS have successfully arrested these TDA members, but there are more. These people rape, murder, traffic humans and drugs into the U.S.A. Their criminal network (and therefore profits) have been severely disrupted. It's common sense that they are going to seek new and creative ways to get back in business. As they already extort and exploit on a daily basis in Venezuela, why wouldn't they do the same to potential foreign students?

This is just one example.

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

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Post by 15155 »

jlebar wrote: post #38
15155 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> anti-american but keeps their opinions to themself, and someone that has no opinions Why do we need to be admitting anti-American individuals to this country for any reason whatsoever? News flash: visas are a privilege, not a right.

Who gets to define what is anti-American? Perhaps you think it's anti-American to believe that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. Perhaps I think it's anti-American to believe that the Jan 6 rioters should have been pardoned. Whose purity test should we apply?

We're talking about foreigners: if you are a guest in someone's country, home, wherever, you should be respectful and quiet.

I don't want any foreigners contributing to any political activism whatsoever, regardless of ideology.

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

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Post by netsharc »

15155 wrote: post #36
__s wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anti American is a fluid term Is it anti American to oppose annexing Canada? Careful what you reply, may affect your visa application

It truly does not matter how this opinion can shift with the political climate: foreigners aren't citizens, no matter how much folks would like this to be the case.

> We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection.

Reagan is a hypocritical cunt of course, but how far we've fallen that now you might as well put a chain around Lady Liberty's neck, pull it down like the statues of Saddam Hussein or Assad (or I guess hanging is more appropriate, since the spiritual successors of the Confederancy is now in power), and replace it with a statue of redneck lady giving foreigners the middle finger, with "Fuck off!" written on the base.

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

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

mc32 wrote: post #31
philipjoubert wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It’d been going on for a while: they had embedded people at Twitter, Facebook, etc. to act as liaisons to “protect truth” on subjects such as the origins of Covid, hunter Biden’s laptop, the senility of a certain commander in chief, the discussion on males participating in women’s sports, etc. the movement went so far as preventing speakers with opposing views to speak at universities. The idea of safe spaces itself…

That was just private citizens exercising their own free speech rights, even if you disagreed. Now we have the federal government punishing people with speech and beliefs the president and his cronies don't like. It's a whole different ballgame.

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

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Post by 15155 »

noobermin wrote: post #28
jan_Sate wrote: post #3

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.

Along with the push for ending birth right citizenship and detaining citizens the goal is a white ethnostate. I doubt Trump is that cognizant of that but Stephen Miller definitely is pushing for that.

> Along with the push for ending birth right citizenship

Which other countries in the world allow pregnant vacationers to birth citizens?

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

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Post by udev4096 »

> that she felt “stressed."

Are these people so delusional that they think "social media" sites are even remotely anonymous? Whatever you do, it's up for sale. No wonder meta has billions of active users, most of them with no brain cells. It's extremely concerning that majority of the younger generation has almost no sense of achieving privacy on the internet

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

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Post by axus »

15155 wrote: post #44
jlebar wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who gets to define what is anti-American? Perhaps you think it's anti-American to believe that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. Perhaps I think it's anti-American to believe that the Jan 6 rioters should have been pardoned. Whose purity test should we apply?

We're talking about foreigners: if you are a guest in someone's country, home, wherever, you should be respectful and quiet. I don't want any foreigners contributing to any political activism whatsoever, regardless of ideology.

I'd certainly expect visitors to be held to the same standards as the natives. This is the problem, as a US citizen I don't want to be respectful and quiet, especially when I disagree with my government.

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

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Post by marcinzm »

tuyguntn wrote: post #29

So many things are being done to protect a single country outside of the USA, even on a different continent, including losing its credibility about free speech and human rights.

This has little to do with a single country and more with the fact that if someone is willing to fight for anything other than the current administration then one day they might fight against the current administration directly. Same reason Stalin sent those who fought in the Warsaw Uprising against the Germans to Siberia. Today it's the Germans, tomorrow it may be the Soviets.
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