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[-] control@startrek.website 2 points 14 minutes ago

Well, that’s one more reason to never come to the USA again

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

What if you don't have social media accounts?

[-] BoycottPro@lemm.ee 11 points 4 hours ago

This is stupid. This will not stop spies and terrorists, they will just create fake accounts. This will only hurt legitimate immigrants.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 points 3 hours ago

This is for non immigrant visas it says

[-] BoycottPro@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

What I said can be applied to any type of visa. The policy is not going to fix anything, it's only going to invade peoples privacy and turn away legitimate visa applicants.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 points 3 hours ago

USA being USA

Btw don’t forget to switch instance

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 hours ago

Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 3 hours ago

will be denied entry

Source:

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

Make a fake one that posts like... idk post random tech stuff that you could be reasonably interested in. Make nothing critical of authority. As a decoy profile.

Then you can rant about big brother on an anonymous Lemmy Account over TOR.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 points 3 hours ago

But a super recent account would be suspicious

You have to do this over a couple years

[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

My US visa officer: what do you mean you did not have 'social' media accounts in 5 years? No, these weird sites don't count. Underground terrorist? Straight to gulag.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 hours ago

Sure why not, since my name is Anthony O'Neill. You can find my short form username: Anon.

What could they find? I bet I'm save.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 hours ago

I'm betting on the opposite problem,

We show here you've been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

You can find my short form username: Anon.

What could they find?

Yes, what possible community full of people named "Anon" could they find that would get you in any amount of trouble?

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

4chan. they call each other anon all the time

[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 8 points 9 hours ago

"I don't use social media"

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 0 points 3 hours ago

If you’re a student, you must have something to hide, as everyone uses social media

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 8 hours ago

But sir, the form only has space for four!

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 hours ago

"Have you ever attempted to overthrow a government by force or violence?"

Non-Citizen MAGAt: sweats profusely

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

"Why? Is the CIA hiring?"

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[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago

This is why I’ve already deleted basically everything, social media is a cancer that pushes us further and further apart and replaces meaningful interactions with vapid and shallow counterfeit interactions, it’s a net loss for anyone using it at this point.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

And soon you will be deleted due to lemm.ee closing

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 9 points 11 hours ago

Meanwhile, you post here :P

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[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago

Every social media username? I figure most people are like me and lost most of them.

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[-] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 131 points 18 hours ago

America is such a fucking joke it's no longer funny. I wish we could isolate the rest of the world from your madness but unfortunately we can't.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 28 points 15 hours ago

As a Native American this attitude would be a lot more understandable and palatable if America wasn’t colonized…

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 15 points 12 hours ago

These immigration raids and terror tactics are terrible on their own, but it’s especially absurd when Native Americans get caught up in it, and it just fully exposes how disingenuous and transparently racist the whole effort is. So I’m sorry that your peoples have to suffer even more because of this racist mindset.

From a January article:

”If you can’t say, ‘we’ve been here for time immemorial,’ then you’re an immigrant. You’re not from here, so who are you to classify our Indigenous people? These lands have been a melting pot for many ethnicities,” Hatathlie [a Native Arizona state Senator] said.

I heard another more recent example of a car full of Native Americans being pulled over, aggressively questioned, and asked for their papers, but I can’t seem to find it. It’s utterly shameful how we treat people.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

Can the native Americans just kill the leader of the colonizing force?

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[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Oh well, I wouldn't have been welcome anyway, seeing I've had the audacity to be critical of Israeli ~~genocide~~ defense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.

Guess I'll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 points 3 hours ago

Guess I'll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.

Great decision

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Who TF wants to set foot in that shithole banana republic anyway?
Stuff your visa, and return the favor and stay TF out of other people's countries.
That would be a welcome change.

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 6 points 11 hours ago

Good luck. NYS couldn't even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.

[-] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 14 points 13 hours ago

I mean they make you sign away your rights and tell them if you’ve ever been affiliated with any one who was in or if you joined a communist party. So this is just another layer on the shit cake.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 14 hours ago

hey turns out our tech oligarchs are the ones spying on us and not the chinese, what a twist!

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[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago
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