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State Department Wants to Know Student Visa Applicants’ Myspace Accounts
How are student visa applicants supposed to share their social media accounts on platforms that haven’t existed in years, like Google+ and Vine?
This means applicants could find themselves in the awkward position of being required to make public their profiles on the short-form video service Vine, which closed in 2017; the short-lived social media platform Google+, which shut down in 2019; or the dating site Twoo, which ceased operations in 2021. “Government social media surveillance invades privacy and chills freedom of speech, and it is prone to errors and misinterpretation without ever having been proven effective at assessing security threats,” warned Sophia Cope, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The list is mishmash of popular social media providers, regional services (predominantly those used in China), and a bevy of outdated and defunct platforms, such as Myspace, which has been a digital ghost town for years.
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