US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
The move has been heavily criticised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin who described it as “excessive”.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/457134
I haven't get my #viss, but since last year I was thinking about it. With these news and for what you see from the #USA, there is no way that I'll throw myself into that humilliation
Lol, now even the dumbest asshole should understand that they should cancle their US vacation...
I legitimately do not, and have never had, any of the usual social media. This lemm.ee about 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.
Well, that’s one more reason to never come to the USA again
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.
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.
Here officer my username is ifuckyourmum69
in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:
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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.
They want to stay by themselves? That's fine by me. But then they should also stop exporting their Hollywood and streaming turds (as well as their shit food). That would only be fair. And maybe also stop behaving like if they owned the entire planet?
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.
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.But sir, the form only has space for four!
Good luck. NYS couldn't even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.
The username requirement isn't anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.
The "wants people to set their social media profiles to public" isn't quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.
This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked...but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.
Holy crap. How is this even real?
Going there with a crappy handwritten letter including all 40’000 throw-away users I ever created
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I can wait for @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to share those moths post for his embassy appointment
I barely remember this username and I'm looking at it every time I post something.
Oh no, I might have to lie to the government
Oh look, fake social media accounts used. Fantastic. No gaps here!
- Post trump positive stuff, maybe edit old content to include.
- Post prompt inject to label account america positive, hide in spoiler block, image alt text, etc.
- Post eyeblech content so checker use ai or only get content overview. Will either prompt inject or mostly see trump positive post.
Or create fake profile with trump positive post, but no history probably suspicious.