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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:34 am

Question: How many foreigners does Stephen Miller hate?

Answer: All of them.

From the BBC:

Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules.

The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phone numbers.

When proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually.

Certain diplomatic and official visa applicants will be exempt from the stringent new measures.

However, people travelling to the US to work or to study will have to hand over their information.

"We are constantly working to find mechanisms to improve our screening processes to protect US citizens, while supporting legitimate travel to the United States," the department reportedly said.

Previously, only applicants who needed additional vetting - such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups - would need to hand over this data.

But now applicants will have to give up their account names on a list of social media platforms, and also volunteer the details of their accounts on any sites not listed.

Anyone who lies about their social media use could face "serious immigration consequences", according to an official who spoke to The Hill.

The Trump administration first proposed the rules in March 2018.

At the time, the American Civil Liberties Union - a civil rights group - said there is "no evidence that such social media monitoring is effective or fair", and said it would cause people to self-censor themselves online.

US President Donald Trump made cracking down on immigration a key plank of his election campaign in 2016.

He called for "extreme vetting" of immigrants before and during his time in office.

On Friday Mr Trump vowed to impose gradually rising tariffs on Mexico unless the country curbed illegal immigration at the US southern border.


Yes, folks, that's ALL email addresses and phone numbers an applicant may have used over the previous FIVE years, as well as ALL social media profiles (from the article it's unclear whether the five-year thingy applies or not).

Let me repeat that.

If you ever wish to apply for a US visa and you're not a certified Trump worshipper (who are we kidding here?), you're going to hand over:

ALL EMAIL ADDRESSES
ALL PHONE NUMBERS
ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES


That includes your Tinder and Grindr profiles, your totally-forgotten email address you used one time to access a certain website, your porn usernames, your anything and everything. Do not comply, and the authorities shall seek fit to deny you entry or kick you out, whichever is funnier to them, because how is abuse under this going to be corrected politically?

... yes, this may be the policy equivalent of Stephen Miller splooging all over the Statue of Liberty in an eerie reprise of that scene in End of Evangelion.

(And you will not convince me that this is not a Miller Pride & Joy -- if he didn't have a hand in this policy, that's logically impossible.)

Discuss.

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Postby Vassenor » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:38 am

So how do they claim this policy will benefit America?
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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:40 am

Vassenor wrote:So how do they claim this policy will benefit America?


"We are constantly working to find mechanisms to improve our screening processes to protect US citizens, while supporting legitimate travel to the United States," the department reportedly said.


In other words, a non-answer answer that pretends the abominable is absolutely... normal.

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Postby Socialist Workers Combine » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:48 am

I have no problem with this, I have a problem with it being hard for people doing college here to get visas.

If anything we should start screening prolife people.
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Postby Caracasus » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:53 am

So what you're telling me is that NS players seriously into raiding and defending are gonna need to ask for an extra thirty sheets of paper to fill this application in?

But yeah, in all seriousness this looks like a bullshit law. Stick up a requirement that no reasonable person could be expected to fulfill and then kick out anyone you don't like the look of because they weren't able to fulfill it.

Basically this is more or less what HR departments have been doing forever.
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Postby Big Jim P » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:55 am

Coming to America is a privilege and we are well within our rights to screen out undesirables. This is a non-issue.
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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:57 am

Caracasus wrote:So what you're telling me is that NS players seriously into raiding and defending are gonna need to ask for an extra thirty sheets of paper to fill this application in?

But yeah, in all seriousness this looks like a bullshit law. Stick up a requirement that no reasonable person could be expected to fulfill and then kick out anyone you don't like the look of because they weren't able to fulfill it.

Basically this is more or less what HR departments have been doing forever.


Yeah, this is pretty much a practice in caprice; even those who could fulfill it will be shown the door because reasons -- or no reason at all, I mean, it was last Tuesday.

Also, why would gamebro NSers need to do that?

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Postby Dooom35796821595 » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:58 am

Big Jim P wrote:Coming to America is a privilege and we are well within our rights to screen out undesirables. This is a non-issue.


A very un-American statement.
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Postby Caracasus » Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:59 am

Duhon wrote:
Caracasus wrote:So what you're telling me is that NS players seriously into raiding and defending are gonna need to ask for an extra thirty sheets of paper to fill this application in?

But yeah, in all seriousness this looks like a bullshit law. Stick up a requirement that no reasonable person could be expected to fulfill and then kick out anyone you don't like the look of because they weren't able to fulfill it.

Basically this is more or less what HR departments have been doing forever.


Yeah, this is pretty much a practice in caprice; even those who could fulfill it will be shown the door because reasons -- or no reason at all, I mean, it was last Tuesday.

Also, why would gamebro NSers need to do that?



Don't they often create hundreds of puppets to assist with raiding or defending?
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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:01 am

Big Jim P wrote:Coming to America is a privilege and we are well within our rights to screen out undesirables. This is a non-issue.


This is an issue because ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WITH ANY ONLINE EXPOSURE ON PLANET EARTH CAN KEEP UP WITH ITS REQUIREMENTS.

What Stephen Miller (and this is pretty much a Miller thing, you will not convince me otherwise) is asking of the visa applicant is insane. Insane.

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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:02 am

Caracasus wrote:
Duhon wrote:
Yeah, this is pretty much a practice in caprice; even those who could fulfill it will be shown the door because reasons -- or no reason at all, I mean, it was last Tuesday.

Also, why would gamebro NSers need to do that?



Don't they often create hundreds of puppets to assist with raiding or defending?


They do? I'm sorry, not into that sort of thing, but HUNDREDS?!

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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:07 am

Dooom35796821595 wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:Coming to America is a privilege and we are well within our rights to screen out undesirables. This is a non-issue.


A very un-American statement.


To expand on this: In what possible universe is calling people "undesirable" for not doing the impossible things you yourself set justified?

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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:28 am

How are they going to know if you are withholding, apart from Google and Facebook providing them with the information already for them to check against?
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Postby Australian rePublic » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:33 am

Oh shit. I'm the type who's likely to forget all my social media accounts
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Postby Vassenor » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:35 am

Big Jim P wrote:Coming to America is a privilege and we are well within our rights to screen out undesirables. This is a non-issue.


#notracistbut
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Postby Caracasus » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:36 am

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:How are they going to know if you are withholding, apart from Google and Facebook providing them with the information already for them to check against?


They won't - unless they decide that they want to kick you out or deny you entry and can't find a legal recourse to do so. Then they'll go through your internet history with a fine tooth comb and find some profile you'd forgotten about that you created for your hamster on instagram or something.
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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:36 am

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:How are they going to know if you are withholding, apart from Google and Facebook providing them with the information already for them to check against?


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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:37 am

Caracasus wrote:
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:How are they going to know if you are withholding, apart from Google and Facebook providing them with the information already for them to check against?


They won't - unless they decide that they want to kick you out or deny you entry and can't find a legal recourse to do so. Then they'll go through your internet history with a fine tooth comb and find some profile you'd forgotten about that you created for your hamster on instagram or something.


Or skip that and fuck you anyway. No appeal.

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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:37 am

Australian rePublic wrote:Oh shit. I'm the type who's likely to forget all my social media accounts


Same, but with me it's email addresses.

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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:40 am

Vassenor wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:Coming to America is a privilege and we are well within our rights to screen out undesirables. This is a non-issue.


#notracistbut


I very much doubt Jim here is Stephen Miller.

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Postby The New California Republic » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:47 am

I quit social media years ago, so that's one thing I can't hand over. As for email addresses and telephone numbers, I can't possibly remember every email address I've had, but telephone numbers is straightforward.

But I don't plan on going to the US any time soon, so it's nothing to concern myself with.
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Postby Big Jim P » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:48 am

Vassenor wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:Coming to America is a privilege and we are well within our rights to screen out undesirables. This is a non-issue.


#notracistbut


I didn't mention race. You did.

Try again.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:59 am

Thats a stupid amount of information to hand over, who the fuck is gona remember all of their social media profiles, phone number and email addresses from the last five years?
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Postby Latin Islands » Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:59 am

What if I, er, someone is no longer using a social media site account? Also, will they guarantee complete data security and privacy? This arrangement seems to be unnecessarily risky, considering that this will involve big data.
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Postby Duhon » Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:02 am

The Huskar Social Union wrote:Thats a stupid amount of information to hand over, who the fuck is gona remember all of their social media profiles, phone number and email addresses from the last five years?


No one. Hence the Evangelion reference -- just as no human nor human instrument on earth (save the Jet Alone, and that ate up a country's worth of power) can penetrate an Absolute Terror Field, so this is for Miller's purposes. Legal immigration dead, for all intents and purposes.
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