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Previously the State Department had required only visitors to the US who where coming from specific regions to turn over more social control media information. Now Engadget and CNN tell of the following proposed changes which are now posted in the Federal Register and entering their 60 period for public comment.
From Engadget:
In documents that the department will file to the Federal Register tomorrow [ed: 2018-03-30], it proposes that nearly every individual applying for a US visa be required to hand over any social media handles used on certain platforms in the past five years as well as submit any telephone numbers and email addresses used during that same time period.
The State Department will accept public comments until near the end of May.
Sources:
Engadget: US visa applications may soon require five years of social media info
CNN: US to require would-be immigrants to turn over social media handles
[ed: no actual DS-160 or DS-156 forms seem to be available for download or review.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/forms/ds-160-online-nonimmigrant-visa-application.html ]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:47PM (12 children)
In what reality is the US a welfare state... Oh wait today is April 1st.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Arik on Sunday April 01 2018, @09:08PM (7 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 5, Informative) by captain normal on Monday April 02 2018, @12:22AM (2 children)
The Heritage Foundation??? Come on man you can't seriously fall for (nor expect any reasonable person to fall for) this half baked crap. These guys are paid shills for the likes of the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch and the Mercers. You must be on the payroll on these anti-American bunch of Criminals.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @12:24AM (1 child)
Then identify and rectify a foundational false claim they make.
ad hominem doesn't sway rational people.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @06:32AM
Then identify and rectify a foundational false claim they make.
"real per capita social welfare in the United States is larger than in almost all other countries"
The Heritage Foundation is a bunch of liars
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @12:33AM (2 children)
That's an interesting way of looking at it.
So why then is the American welfare state so fucking wasteful compared to other first world countries?
Oh yeah, I forget. #1: government can't do anything right, therefore #2: create programs designed to fail, and #3: pork pork pork pork pork pork PORK pork!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 02 2018, @02:49AM
So #1 was right, eh? Funny how the critics get blamed for the process.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday April 02 2018, @07:04PM
The SPAM corporation would officially like to register a complaint. SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM, and egg.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Monday April 02 2018, @08:10AM
I think you mis-spelled "warfare state".
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @10:43PM (1 child)
That's according to the Cato Institute, in 2014 or the like.
The Federal Government alone spends upwards of $700 billion per year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @12:31AM
Ah, so by your metric the US should ACTUALLY be called a "warfare state".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @12:53AM (1 child)
Don't forget the armies of meth-cookers in Middle America that collect Social Security Disability payments.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @05:27AM
Meth cooking is just free market at work.