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Summary:
The Trump administration’s proposal to vet social media profiles of green card applicants already legally in the U.S. has been condemned in initial public feedback as an attack on free speech.
Visa applicants living abroad already have to share their social media handles with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, but the proposal under President Donald Trump would expand the policy to those already legally in the country who are applying for permanent residency or seeking asylum.
USCIS said the vetting of social media accounts is necessary for “the enhanced identity verification, vetting and national security screening.”
The agency also said it was necessary to comply with Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.”
“In a review of information collected for admission and benefit decisions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) identified the need to collect social media identifiers (‘handles’) and associated social media platform names from applicants to enable and help inform identity verification, national security and public safety screening, and vetting, and related inspections,” the agency announced on March 5.
President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed vetting the social media handles of immigrants already legally in the U.S. who are applying for green cards or permanent citizenship. The plan has been condemned as a ‘violation of the First Amendment.’
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So basically he wants to deport legal residents for Luigiposting, making fun of Tesla, or acknowledging that Palestinians and trans people are humans.
Can we please switch to the timeline where Bernie just finished his second term and the Mango Mussolini is in jail for the rest of his miserable life? Pretty please with porn on top?
1st Amendment means nothing to these fascists
Elon Musk is silent about freedom of speech all of a sudden
Anyone think about what they used to do before we started making indelible records of all our social activity? Probably ask you some questions and that’s it. Yet now they think it’s ‘vital’ that they be able to see everything you ever said to your friends? Bullshit it is, they’re just powerhungry petty tyrants.
Just another reason to avoid the US like a plague. On the other hand, with bird flu and measles running more or less unchecked in a country with a horrible health system and an antivaxxer at the helm for health, avoiding the US is avoiding the plague.
OR WHAT?
Likely considered not adhering to conditions and having their card cancelled.
Legal or not, that’s how these fascists work.
I guess they don’t get their green card ?
“I don’t use social media”
ICE: “Hands behind your back. Stop resisting!”
“why don’t you use social media? What are you hiding?”
If/when this gets to citizens, they’re gonna be so mad about my dissing them on the Internet that Elon is gonna try to build an even bigger spaceship to launch me directly into a Kuiper Belt object.
With each passing day, the Dark Forest theory of social media seems all the more prescient…
What’s that?
Green card = legally a Permanent US Resident, protected by us law.
From a MAGA perspective:
Green card = foreigner, deport them.
I hate talking to them. Because they outright don’t think green card people should have rights
Yes, this if for the applicants for a green card, so he basically wants people to invade their privacy if they want to become a permanent citizen.
Might as well get them used to lack of privacy from the get-go.
This is about people applying to get a green card.
Start your formal profiles (FB, Insta, LinkedIn, the ones that boomers know about) and post neutral stuff sparingly. Go hog wild on the ones you’ll never admit to having. Just use a different email address.
Do not do this. A different email address will not hide anything about what you do online from Meta or xitter or any data broker that sells all your data to them.
The US is going down the path of social credit score like China at this point, anything you say can and will be used against you.
Why have more than account on the older platforms? That’s not what I mean at all.
Make any account with any email address on any service that shares data with any data broker and use this account for about a week.
They’ll have enough data on you to tie the activity to your actual name and physical devices by the end of the week, usually sooner.
Not if you take steps to prevent that. You’d have to be seriously paranoid to be in the clear, but you can spoof a lot of identifying data and your general activity is almost certainly not enough to pin you down specifically.
privacy matters, folks.
I only have a few lemmy throwaways
Visa applicants living abroad already have to share their social media handles with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, but the proposal under President Donald Trump would expand the policy to those already legally in the country who are applying for permanent residency or seeking asylum.
Green card, visa applicants, seeking asylum… and then when does it come to actual us American citizens then? Especially those that were born here? Like when will it come to us all?
What of peoples not in us? He demand see profile to?
You not have account, you not travel to us?
You have account he see all detail of life in eu?
I’m not even religious, but I still know about the Whore of Babylon.
