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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by msgodel on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:46AM (#44327701)
People on Visas are guests. It makes sense to have much more strict rules for them.

If you'd like to be around everyone from a foreign country because you think you're missing out on something there you should move there.

Most of the rest of the world is strictly worse than the US (and it's certainly different.) Don't force it on the rest of us because of your ridiculous idealism.

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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by barbazoo on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:12AM (#44328498)
> Most of the rest of the world is strictly worse than the US

Source? But also what is that even supposed to mean?!

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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by msgodel on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:12AM (#44328503)
>Source

Net immigration into the US.

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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by barbazoo on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:45AM (#44328830)
Which is lower than a lot of other countries' at least when controlled for population size.

https://database.earth/population/migration/2023

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/about/archives/2023/f...

USA is #43 there.

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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by msgodel on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:05PM (#44332547)
Still more than most of the rest of the world.
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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by barbazoo on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:40PM (#44340176)
Yes, 43<195/2
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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by techpineapple on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:25AM (#44328023)
The devil is in the details, something had to happen after 9/11, but the PATRIOT act and invading Iraq weren't it. Likewise, yes, we should have higher standards on immigration, but maybe letting Palantir run wild and not letting people who don't have social media into the country isn't the solution.

Way too much of our political debate is binary.

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