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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 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 · 6 months ago
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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications
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The move has been heavily criticised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin who described it as “excessive”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/457134

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  • Thebigguy@lemmy.ml
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    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.

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

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    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.

    • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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      Meanwhile, you post here :P

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        “I am very intelligent.”

    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
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      And soon you will be deleted due to lemm.ee closing

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    What if you don’t have social media accounts?

    • 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

    • ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world
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      Right to jail

      • creisel@lemmy.zip
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        Right away, jail!

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
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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.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      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
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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?

      • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
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        👀

      • refalo@programming.dev
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        4chan. they call each other anon all the time

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    But sir, the form only has space for four!

  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    I can wait for @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to share those moths post for his embassy appointment

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      Guess I’m never entering the US. 😭😭

      (Pretty damn lucky if you ask me)

    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Also the only way I can be stopped from posting moth

      • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    i mean just say you don’t have social media it’s not like they can access private social media databases

    • andrewth09@lemmy.world
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      They can in fact access private social media databases.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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        I don’t have any

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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        Of lemmy.zip?

  • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
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    welcome to Autocracy ladies and gentlemen, sit back, grab some popcorn and pay attention to your neighbours, some might start dissappearing soon

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      dont threaten americans with what they want and voted for.

    • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
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      football selling out to Qatar who use slave labour and stone gay people to death, now US who hate foreigners and will detain you at random, and being in 2034 in Saudi Arabia, who also hate human rights is just the icing on the cake. I wanted to fly to the US for the world cup, but fuck that, fuck Trump and his cronies across the globe

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    1. Post trump positive stuff, maybe edit old content to include.
    2. Post prompt inject to label account america positive, hide in spoiler block, image alt text, etc.
    3. 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.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      Don’t post trump positive stuff at all. Just post cat videos of you want to make a fake account and add content to it

    • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Or even buy a fake age profile…that is going to be a business

    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com
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      No more bot farms needed

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

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    Holy crap. How is this even real?

  • AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml
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    Oh look, fake social media accounts used. Fantastic. No gaps here!

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    I barely remember this username and I’m looking at it every time I post something.

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