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New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said. “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

First they come for the students, then next they'll come for the usual business visas.

I guess it's time to make my porn site bookmarks public for the sake of a visa. Maybe I should join a MAGA group on Facebook and praise our lord and savior, DJT.

On a serious note, does this cover ALL social media, including whatsapp too? So it is literally "you surrender everything just to study". That's fucked up.