If you just have some random handle that isn’t your name. How are they gonna trace that to you?
Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Officer: please wait on the side
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presents timeline filled with non-binary catgirls meowing at each other
Welp, looks like I won't be allowed into America. Oh no. How unfortunate.
My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.
Wasn't this always the case? I remember flying into the US during the Biden era as a tourist and had to declare my social media accounts.
Wait really? 😂
Yes I recalled that too but I don’t recall the public aspect to be turned on.
"You better not have said anything mean on there that hurts Donald's feefees."
I see many of these students straight up deleting their profiles.
Alternatively, they'll have a "public facing" social media, and a real one.
yeah, I can see not having a social media profile at all being treated as tantamount to sedition before too long
I’m so happy that I was able to skip all that stuff.
I stoped using my mainstream social media around the years ago.
I kept the profiles, and I think it is good as I can just share them if I’m ever required to.
Anyone applying to colleges probably has one already.
Which is probably a net positive on their lives. The less social media the better.
I will imagine that will be seen as suspicious. Interesting businesss to sell clean aged social media account for US only vetting..
Me: I don’t have a social media account Officer: Sure buddy, wait on a side until you do.
Careful curation
The subtext here: “if you post anti-Israel stuff, you can kiss your chances goodbye!”
Looks like the US is not the country of choice anymore. Setting a profile to public means gets to see all those things you that may be embarrassing, career limiting, life threatening etc.