This has been around for at least 10 years
Would they believe if I say I don’t have Fecesbook and Xitter accounts (because I actually don’t)? I’d just lie for the rest…
And if you were a criminal, you would create a false account with unicorns on it.
It’s been like that for a long time now. I remember I was filling out DS160 form in 2022 and they were asking for all of my SM handles.
Hahahaha yeaaah they wont like what i post and used to post.
Dear reader if you are curiouse, its both. Both of what you think
I still say 4chan was ahead of its time. No handles, just a big mix of unknowns.
It was also raw as fuck. That allowed for some very honest interactions but also introduced a shitload of trash to filter through. Then the whole political influx came in a decade ago and fully ruined it. lemmy seems like a good middle way. no senseless karma farming but also some tools to moderate.
Yeah you can definitely be anonymous here. Accounts and even instances are easy to create. I like the result
Was? Is. The political influx is just more trash to filter though.
It’s pretty much dead to me. I know it was always ass but at some point the OC/spam ratio gets too bad to bother. Lost memes were a good time. Now I’d have to sift through 80 incels calling eachother tranny to find a single post with a shred of an original thought behind it. Eh, maybe it’s the same and I just got too old for it. Doesn’t matter in the end.
you just outgrew it. same shit, different words of the day
yeah look at all the wonderful things they created. ahead of its time? anonymous message boards existed way before them and freenet, as close as possible to true anonymity started way before.
Handles do exist, they’re just optional and most channers don’t use them.
This is not new. I believe they’ve been doing this as far back as Obama (although it might have been less widespread back then).
What happens if you don’t have any mainstream social media accounts? What happens if you say you don’t have any mainstream social media accounts? What happens if you give them a the handle of a respectable “friend’s” account? How far do they go to actually verify or enforce this?
I did go through this on 2022 with no real social media presence. I just didn’t add anything to that section of DS160 and got through the process with no issues
People going through US immigration (I did this maybe ~20 years ago as a student) will just make a temp, low-use account or something similar.
Doesn’t make it any less wrong. They don’t need it, so they shouldn’t be allowed to ask.
Don’t understand how this is wrong, they’re asking for your @ not your login. They’re doing a background check on you regardless so say for Facebook they’re just going to look you up anyway this just shortens the process.
If it’s a public facing account I don’t get what’s so “wrong” about this
If you’re on US soil, you have a constitutional protection against unreasonable searches, and the law is very clear about what you must provide and in what circumstances. It varies a little by area, but even in “stop and ID” states, cops generally need “reasonable suspicion” (strict legal definition) that you have, are about to, or are in the process of committing a crime. ID is limited to state issued ID, and in many areas you don’t even need to provide that, only verbally assert your name and DOB.
If the government wants additional information from me, they need an arrest and/or warrant. Or they can do their own investigation without an arrest or warrant.
Those constitutional protections should apply to visa applicants as well. If the government wants additional data, they should do a background check. They should not be able to demand things unnecessary to process the visa application like social media handles, groups they associate with, etc, because that’s a constitutional violation.
Explain to me why this should apply to a visa applicant? They are not here yet, they are still within their country and want to enter here so your “on American soil” argument doesn’t make sense. Seems pretty reasonable to me to be actually vetting people who enter a country. By actual investigative means and not arbitrary ones.
Yes, we should absolutely be vetting people, but we should also be following the law. They should be able to ask for extra information, but applicants should be informed that they are not obligated to provide it, and decisions should not be based on whether that information is provided. However, it could be decided based on whether the immigration officer has enough information to approve or deny entry, and that extra information could be useful in tipping that balance (i.e. if they can’t find your SM and found other sketchy stuff).
What kind of a message does it send if we have different standards depending on which side of the border you’re on? That’s incredibly dumb.
What kind of a message does it send if we have different standards depending on which side of the border you’re on? That’s incredibly dumb
No, that’s called being a sovereign nation. Every country treats its citizens differently from outsiders, it’s literally the entire point.
I guess I’m mistaken. Immigrants and visitors are not technically “on US soil” until they have been processed. However, but once they are on US soil, they enjoy many (most?) of the rights and privileges in the Constitution and legal code, including the 4th amendment (governs searches). So it depends on where you’re applying for a status.
It just seems odd to me that, once processed, you immediately gain rights that would be violated had the order of operations been reversed (i.e. admit first and then searched). It seems to me that if we’re considering someone for entry to the US, there may be an argument that an unreasonable search is unconstitutional, even if it happened just prior to entry.
This requirement is not new. In visa applications for visitors, you’re already required to list all your social media accounts.
That’s ridiculous and should be banned.
Lol. The only people who would want US visas have handles like bigballs and 14heil88trump6969.
I bet the dept that will be responsible for checking social media is too short-staffed to thoroughly vet applicants anyway because of DOGE cuts.
It’s not an unreasonable request. If the shoe was on the other foot I’d want to be screening every American coming to our border to check if they were active on topics like annexation or shudder cyber truck enthusiasm.
