U.S. visa applicants to be asked for social media history - Polidicks

True. I don't think Trump is good for this country. I voted in the election, but I didn't vote for Trump. We need to stop trying to guilt people for not voting or for who they voted for, because people can only change their beliefs through genuine consideration. As soon as you push someone with a "you have to feel bad about who you voted for!", they will respond with "no, I don't!" and go to r/TheDonald or whatever and begin their shitposting reign of terror. That's just self-evident from human nature, in my opinion. The more scared and angry this country has been getting, the more we've been dividing ourselves into tribes. Fear and anger is the problem. Trying to make someone guilty is a form of anger. We can't fix problems with anger, we are smart animals and we fix problems by thinking about them until we find a solution we think will likely work, trying it, and seeing if it has good results. Anger is analogous to a sword, and thinking is analogous to machine learning (because thinking /is/ learning, as long as you don't settle on one conclusion before you've thought it out). I was, and am, very angry at the election results. However, I realized that the only way I can help is by letting go of my anger through free will, and instead trying to understand the motivations of the people who pissed me off. I'm not sure I fully do yet, but I've gotten a lot better results from my discussions after I decided to stop using negativity in all forms, because humans hate it and it ends the discussion.

If you posted it on social media, it's not private.

It freaks me the fuck out that employers can view your social media. Like, seeing the shit I post would probably give anyone not-internet savvy a real double-take on what they looked at. I can't imagine someone wanting to hire me when all I post is incoherent bullshit like "hoopty shoopty baba looly eating the doritos, boopy goony guadalupe found myself cheetos" and other random memes that have shitty flaming effect text with skeletons in the background.

Reminder that the way this is worded, it's not just Facebook and the like - Facepunch/reddit/etc. would probably be included, too. Right now, they're not asking for passwords, but in a few years... I mean, if that's enacted and you've already gone once and given out all your handles, there's really nothing you can do but give your passwords out. It's not like something similar hasn't been suggested before: US visitors may have to reveal social media passwords to enter c.. I don't know why the US insists on making it a shitty experience to go there. Border control already takes (at least at JFK) a laughable amount of time, even though you have so, so many more people employed than any other place I've gone to.