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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago
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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications
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The move has been heavily criticised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin who described it as “excessive”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47398831

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/457134

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  • KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Redditors will keep posting about social credit score, meanwhile America does worse without even any public knowledge or oversight.

    • OldSoulHippie [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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      Yeah, but they compartmentalize trump as “not us”. That’s not who we are. It’s a bad actor who was allowed to take over the government without any resistance. Nevermind the fact that the stage has been set for this for over 50 years and it’s just the next step down the road to whatever we are heading toward.

      Tl;Dr they will refuse to admit this has anything to do with the American Project at large and won’t countenance that trump is us. He’s distilled America

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        They’ll never undo it but they’ll insist that since they didn’t make the rule their hands are tied when it comes to enforcement

        • OldSoulHippie [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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          Good ol’ ratchet effect. Even my liberal friends can’t deny it when it’s so blatant

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      White supremacy is the black hole at the center of liberal thought: not directly observable, but made apparent by how all of their other ideas orbit around it.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    “Pull up his FurAffinity!”

    It’s so fucking over, lads.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netM
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    Sorry officer but I only have a FetLife and I only use it to follow customs enforcement officer cosplay accounts

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    nineteeneightyfour

  • Firstnamebunchofnumbers [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Now the feds will have to read my poorly written furry smut.

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      At least someone will finally read it.

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Oh look, even more reasons to never go to the US.

    • Pili [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      No way they would let any of us in anyway

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    volcel-kamala

  • 9to5 [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    shaking in my boots as I hand the officer my pornhub usernames. (Only in the land of the free)

  • Omega@lemmy.ml
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    Shit, that’s harder than doing taxes, I won’t be deported for forgetting about a Roblox account I had when I was ten and the three different epic games accounts I made but abandoned?

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    no thought-criminals allowed!

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    Play random username roulette and let the chips land where they may.

  • spudnik [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    What if you don’t have social media? Is that an acceptable answer? Do I have to make an ig account just to get a visa?

  • SexMachineStalin [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    bruh do they really expect me to remember all of the like 50 of my social media alts on Twitter, R*ddit and Fascistbook that I made to evade the constant stream of permanent bans for “threats of violence” against zionists, with PFPs of burning ameriKKKan/piSSraeli flags and signatures like death to ameriKKKa, infinite quantum loop of 9/11s on the KKKracker westerners

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