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Greenpepper ( Greenpepper@beehaw.org )  to PoliticsEnglish · 1 year ago

You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa

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You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa

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Greenpepper ( Greenpepper@beehaw.org )  to PoliticsEnglish · 1 year ago
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The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for...
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    The administration is penalizing prospective students and visitors for shielding their social media accounts from the general public or for choosing to not be active on social media.

    Damn that’s creepy. Not active on social media? Screw you then.

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      Today it’s immigrants, tomorrow it’s everyone else.

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        Wouldn’t doubt it. Hopefully, they’re gone before it gets worse.

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        Inb4 passport renewals become contingent on it

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