free for Americans too?

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 don't use social media and never have."

So what are they going to do if someone fires back with this? Deny their visa because they didn't agree to be spied on by a few of the worst companies on planet fucking earth? Is the government going to be able to somehow make me prove that I don't have social media?

We have the stupidest people in charge right now.

Marco Rubio, take this authoritarian bullshit back to Cuba you stupid, fucking anchor baby.

Some of them no longer allow foreign students and some of them charge an absolute fortune to foreigners.

I can't believe there are still people saying stuff like this won't happen.

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.

Because it's completely impossible to create a fake account that worship trump and has a lot of maga posts

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

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.

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.

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.

Just a moment...

(planforgermany.com)

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

Welp here it is.

I love trump!

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.”

Fine, here is my pornhub account smh.