'Chilling effect on free speech:' Trump wants green card applicants already legally in the US to hand over social media

[riversedge]

Source: msn


‘Chilling effect on free speech:’ Trump wants green card applicants already legally in the US to hand over social media profiles

Story by Rhian Lubin • 44m • 3 min read



The Trump administration’s proposal to vet social media profiles of green card applicants already legally in the U.S. has been condemned in initial public feedback as an attack on free speech.
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USCIS said the vetting of social media accounts is necessary for “the enhanced identity verification, vetting and national security screening.”

The agency also said it was necessary to comply with Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.”

“In a review of information collected for admission and benefit decisions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) identified the need to collect social media identifiers (‘handles’) and associated social media platform names from applicants to enable and help inform identity verification, national security and public safety screening, and vetting, and related inspections,” the agency announced on March 5.

The agency is collecting feedback from the public on the proposal until May 5, the majority of which are overwhelmingly opposed at the time of writing..............................









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[pfitz59]

1. F-47

and the golf cart he rode in on.

[Delarage]

9. Your post

Just gave made me think of his airplane--if it's true that he wants a fighter jet named after him--we should make bumper stickers with "F-47" and a middle finger or some other insulting gesture. It could be our "Let's go Brandon" wink wink sign.

[sunflowerseed]

2. American Freedom includes FREE SPEECH

[moonshinegnomie]

3. im sorry i dont use social media......

[live love laugh]

26. Isn't DU social media?

[moonshinegnomie]

27. that would be my response to ICE at teh airport....

[live love laugh]

28. Gotcha

[2naSalit]

4. WHAT?

Fuck that shit.

[hlthe2b]

5. THis is beyond chilling... This smacks of Stephen Miller--who...

I think is one of the most evil men to walk this earth. A true Hitler wannabe or at least Heinrich Himmler.

[underpants]

6. I read a story this week about a "random" phone search on a visiting scientist

This article doesn’t mention that it was supposedly random. The story o read said that that was DHS’s initial claim. DHS has, of course, came up with some new BS.

French scientist denied entry into U.S. over criticism of Trump's policies

https://www.livenowfox.com/news/french-scientist-denied-entry-us-trump-policies

Philippe Baptiste, the French minister for higher education, told the New York Times that the scientist was not allowed in the U.S. because his phone had message exchanges with coworkers and friends which offered his opinions on President Donald Trump’s scientific research policies.

According to the New York Times, McLaughlin said Thursday that the French scientist was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device, which she elaborated is a "violation of a nondisclosure agreement — something he admitted to taking without permission and attempted to conceal."

[Diraven]

21. They're getting ready to do this with every immigrant

Basically any criticism of Trump or his policies will get them deported now.

[pandr32]

22. They will start using it more broadly.

They want to punish everyone who speaks out against Fuhrer Felon. They may cut them off, cut them out, or jail them and use them as cheap labor.

[underpants]

25. That's what I fear and see coming.

[IronLionZion]

7. They'll come after DUers sooner or later

DU is social media

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. My wife is here on a green card.

[Karasu]

8. Gonna call this bullshit fascism yet, MSM? Or do we still need to wait and see?

[mdbl]

11. Has he already gotten the profiles of Putin and Kim jong un?

Also everyone he released from prison that were convicted for crimes on January 6, 2020. Seems they might be the greatest security threats.

[Martin68]

12. Bullshit. Totally illegal. Just say no.

[0rganism]

13. Immigrants first to check compliance, minorities next to check normalization effectiveness, then the general population

Dark dark times ahead for everyone

[EndlessWire]

14. This is a prelude to taking down the Internet.

Don't kid yourself. Other dictators have done it. So will Trump. There is absolutely no reason for legal green-card holders to have to do anything. Green card holders?? Quite a bit far afield from illegal immigrants. Oh, I see, it's green card "applicants" already here. Sure.

We have to get rid of this guy. Forget 2026 and taking control of Congress. By the end of this year, we will be toast.

Unless, of course, we support the Judiciary that is fighting his crap. We have to do something. There should be some major class-action lawsuits by private law firms, or something.

[SheltieLover]

15. Kick

[rickyhall]

16. God damn Nazis

[JohnnyRingo]

17. I have a friend who's been living in Vietnam for nearly 8 years.

Even they don't do that to him. He comments on FB all the time.

[Deminpenn]

18. Just another reason to stay off social media

Life is fine without it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. And, I agree completely.

But, the thought here is that this kind of thing is illegal and wrong and regardless of how useless social media seems to some of us, no one should have to bow to a weak-willed, intolerant bunch of crybabies who cannot do anything without setting up scapegoats first.

They have no right. That does not mean they care, but they do not.

[Magoo48]

20. That is exactly what they want, for us to take away our own freedoms, to give up our rights to choose.

[iemanja]

23. This site is social media

Interesting that you should put the onus on free speech rather than the Trump administration.

[Deminpenn]

29. Forums like this have been around since the inception of

the internet and are getting scarcer. Social media sites like facebook and it's ilk have not. To me, there's a difference.

[aggiesal]

24. ''Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.'' ...

How about we protect the US from Domestic Terrorists and Other National Security & Public Safety Threats (i.e. Mierda47)