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You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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> The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for...

#USA#VISA#student

North Korea and the United States both control what you can buy.

I’m not talking about anything illegal — that would at least be understandable.

No, even something as simple as a video game can now be denied in the United States, thanks to Visa and Mastercard.

In North Korea, your money and debt can only be used on whatever someone else decides you’re allowed to spend it on.

This whole #visa #mastercard #valve situation is completely bullshit. Visa calls out incest as one of the restrictions. Lat I checked they are not telling #HBO to remove Game Of Thrones. Did you guys see the first episode? It literally has siblings having sex and talk about their love children

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After obtaining a #visa to enter Iran, Sayed Naser flew to Brazil & then traveled to Mexico. He was allowed to enter the #US in July 2024 after receiving #humanitarian parole. He has a pending #SIV application & has separately applied for #asylum.

In June, Sayed Naser was detained by #ICE in a San Diego courthouse just minutes after attending his first asylum hearing.

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After #Kabul fell to the #Taliban in August 2021, President Joe #Biden’s admin moved to resettle #Afghans who had worked for the #US government through the Special Immigrant #Visa (#SIV) program, which grants lawful permanent resident status & a pathway to US #citizenship. As of April, about 25k Afghans had received an SIV, & another 160k had pending applications, said Adam Bates, an attorney with the International #Refugee Assistance Program who analyzed #State Dept data.

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As the admin seeks to fulfill #Trump’s pledge to carry out the largest #deportation op in #US history, attys for the men say their clients — #Afghans who fear retribution from the #Taliban for their work assisting the US in its 20-yr war in #Afghanistan — have found themselves in the crosshairs of #ICE. The attys provided WaPo with #military #contracts & certificates, #asylum & #visa applications, recommendation letters & other records that described both men’s work on behalf of #USmilitary….

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There shouldn't be a morality police. One thing is to create illegal content, other is to create adult games and be able to sell them to adults. Credit card companies shouldn't be a "morality police", deciding what is published or not just because the money goes, due to their sheer size, almost always through them.

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Credit card content cops can't control culture. Not now, not ever.

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#GOG being based as fuck. A few games that are at risk of being disappeared are free to claim for a while to make sure they don't silently vanish.

Seems like CD Project Red positions themselves against Visa, Mastercard and the current wave of right-wing puritanism. Hope they won't get cut off from credit cards and Paypal due to this…
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