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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 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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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/457134

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  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world
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    Of course, how would they know if you don’t list any? Oh, that’s right, PRISM. Fully expect that people who don’t have social media accounts to get accused of having them simply because someone else shares the same name and did say First Amendment protected stuff, like Donald Trump is a terrible fucking president and should be impeached.

    Sorry person with the last name Erdude. I guess you aren’t getting into the US now.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      I feel like I’m going to be responsible for Trump sending ICE to raid the Shady Pines community event planning committee that picks the color schemes for their weekly card games.

    • flandish@lemmy.world
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      it’s ok. my married name is Erdude but we spell it E’Rdude.

      • Trail@lemmy.world
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        I am a doctor and my professional name is Dr. ER dude.

      • billwashere@lemmy.world
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        Why does this make me think of Birdcage…

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      should be impeached

      Impeached and then executed for treason.

  • shneancy@lemmy.world
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    lmao, their tourism is going to shrivel and die so fast

    • Gen_Euffe@sh.itjust.works
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      The attendance for the next FIFA cup was already looking bad, and I can’t imagine the US government wanting your history of online activity to help it even a bit.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        Maybe that will finally kill off the giant amorphous blob of human rights violations known as FIFA

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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        The last one was in some barbarian gulf state, now it’s even worse. Fuck FIFA

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      It already is… Many people from Europe I know, now cancelled their plans.

  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    Here officer my username is ifuckyourmum69

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.

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

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        will be denied entry

        Source:

        • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
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          look at the news, airhead. They detain tourists and journalists for far less nowadays. Even fucking Senators. What else needs to happen for you to wake up?

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            Who was denied entry for not having social media?

    • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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      deleted by creator

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.

      • Highlybaked@lemm.ee
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        and then they check their palantir database and see your lying and throw you in a south american gulag

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    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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      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
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        4chan. they call each other anon all the time

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:

    📈

    note

    in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.

    in all seriousness, renaming someone else’s account and presenting it to CBP as one’s own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.

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    Lol I don’t even remember most of my previous handles. If amnesia isn’t a valid defense I’m never getting into the USA. Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.

    • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Nobody can and that will be use to prove that you lie on the form if they need to find something on you in the future.

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    What if you don’t have social media accounts?

    • ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world
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      Right to jail

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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      That’s even worse.

    • Drunk & Root@sh.itjust.works
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      “quite suspicous what do you have to hide?” and then they smack you with batons arrest you and put you in jail with gang members muders and every evil and vile person

  • serenissi@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      “Why? Is the CIA hiring?”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      No, we were actually liberating it from oppression.

      • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          if they successfully fully take over, those same supporters now become the new threat

          Quite a few of the current crop of deputized ICE agents are MAGA goons from four years ago. So long as you’re actively doing the gruesome work of ethnic cleansing, you’ll be given a pass.

  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee
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    Good thing I delete that crap 10+ years ago. Enjoy the shitty data and memes!

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

  • The Menemen@lemmy.ml
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    Lol, now even the dumbest asshole should understand that they should cancle their US vacation…

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

  • D_C@lemm.ee
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    I legitimately do not, and have never had, any of the usual social media. This lemm.ee account is the only one I have, and that’s closing down soon.

    However I would also never visit the us. So it’s all a win/win for me.

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