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Re:U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Enter... by vidarh on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:17AM (#15364958)
> The right gets upset over insurance requirements, hard to imagine a real requirement to have a Twitter account.

The people who are affected are not voting.

EDIT: missed that it affects naturalized citizens too, but see below.

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Re:U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Enter... by aaron-lebo on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:22AM (#15364980)
Naturalized citizens vote.
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Re:U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Enter... by vidarh on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:25AM (#15365004)
I'd missed that it still affect naturalized citizens too. But by the time they've gained citizenship most of these immigrants will already have given up their information and had a long time to get accustomed to accepting this.

They also not make up nearly a large enough group for it to be likely to have much effect.

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Re:U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Enter... by aaron-lebo on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:26AM (#15365017)
You're right. Guess I'm trying to rationalize that something so ridiculous could never happen, but it already is...

Crazy world.

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