Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public

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• p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Yet another reason not to study there. Ideological screening, what a joke.

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• Zenith@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Delete all social media problem solved

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Brain drain away!

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• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So an applicant with dangerous people in their life, maybe an abusive family member or a stalker ex, is forced to expose their accounts they would otherwise keep private. That’s the first bad-case scenario that comes to mind, I’m sure there are more.

  I propose a new rule - if so for me, then so for thee. Anything imposed on legal applicants is also imposed on the lawmakers who put it in place.

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• SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s going to be weird when there’s no handle or social media at all. I nuked my social media around 2020/2021, I was legit tired if people posting travel pics and pretending everything was alright. Oh by the way one could make a fake page just for this, but deep down we know we don’t care.

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you’re lying and deny you.

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    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I imagined. Probably it’s better to have a public one where you have the kind of things they want to see.

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    … but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Lemmy also can’t be used non-publicly so a pointless distinction considering the context.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lemmy is social media, but when people say “social media” they’re typically referring to one of two things. They either mean all social media including legacy forums or they mean media that is directly tied to their real names.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “antisocial media”.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How can you post here if you haven’t had social media accounts since 2021?

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    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well well this is a recent account after all, so it is possible. Also, I do have a public social media, but it’s either used for messaging or it’s empty (follow - only).

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  applicants for several kinds of student visas would be required to "adjust the privacy settings on all of their personal social media accounts to ‘public’

  They are so ridiculous.

  But ofc it’s not going to happen. They can lick my.

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• First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What the hell, I went to check the official website for my embassy and this is true??

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep, here’s a US government source.

    state.gov/…/announcement-of-expanded-screening-an…

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  *social media accounts that they know of

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