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US to screen social media of foreign students for anti-American content (www.france24.com)
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The State Department had temporarily paused issuing visas for foreign students at the end of May while it came up with the new social media guidance and it will now resume taking appointments.

"The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country," a senior State Department official said.

US consular officers will conduct a conduct a "comprehensive and thorough vetting of all student and exchange visitor applicants," the official said.

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago

Welcome to our surveilance state. We've been under total surveilance for decades.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Then the US is going to wonder why no one applies to come to college here anymore.

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    • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Pathetic

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    How does this actually work? Would it only realistically affect people with their full name on their profile or who have a profile without their full name on them but that are linked to other services that DO have it?

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    They were doing this already. Visa applications going back many years asked for lists of social media accounts.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Er, they've been doing this for a while.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I've seen people who act like tyrants, create all types of hell for people. And then they isolate themselves. They become irrelevant and no one fucking cares about them. That's the United States in a nutshell. America is just creating or committing collective suicide. Both parties, by the way. This country is such a limp dick.

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