Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public
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Marco Rubio, take this authoritarian bullshit back to Cuba you stupid, fucking anchor baby.
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Europe has great universities. Come study here.
Some of them no longer allow foreign students and some of them charge an absolute fortune to foreigners.
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It already is happening. Source: a person getting a visa now-ish.
I can't believe there are still people saying stuff like this won't happen.
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Delete all social media problem solved
They trick is to keep some harmless ones. They're not going to believe you don't have social media.
I have two social media accounts that I just use to discuss the weather and post pictures of the cat.
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Because it's completely impossible to create a fake account that worship trump and has a lot of maga posts
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Imagine a country, they spent billions over the last two centuries to build influence and they got to the top. Foreigners are willing to pay thousands of dollars for getting a degree in such country but no, let them go to a different country and get influenced by somebody else
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Because it's completely impossible to create a fake account that worship trump and has a lot of maga posts
Its not about logic it's about fascism - they want everyone to know who has power on you even if it doesn't actually do much in practice.
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People are missing the point here. Its not about this being a valid strategy to catch anyone but its a fascist strategy to display who's in control over you when you come here.
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free for Americans too?
Yep. Top German engineering schools are free even for people on student visas. Only like one or two are not. I looked in to it a while ago but I'm sure many are still free.
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Shouldn't the burner be the whiter one?
i meant that whatever you show them, if you're white they're gonna say it's a real account, if you're black you're gonna get accused of showing them a fake second account
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You will have to disclose your lemmy account.
Welp here it is.
I love trump!
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Many jobs will already disqualify applicants if they don’t have any social media, or refuse to provide account names. The rise of cancel culture means many businesses are extremely risk-averse, and don’t want any employees who are prone to posting inflammatory things.
I would think that having no social media is a good thing for employers then...
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I would think that having no social media is a good thing for employers then...
The issue is that they assume “I don’t have social media” is a lie. They assume it’s really just code for “I refuse to tell you what my username is.”
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The issue is that they assume “I don’t have social media” is a lie. They assume it’s really just code for “I refuse to tell you what my username is.”
Fine, here is my pornhub account smh.