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> They shouldn't use it at all. There should be some proper non-discrimination laws, and you should be able to sue them, if they disrespect them. Why not? What

> They shouldn't use it at all. There should be some proper non-discrimination laws, and you should be able to sue them, if they disrespect them. Why not? What is discriminatory about looking you up on facebook? Is the issue the pretext used to get the information, or getting that information at all, or how the information will be used? Your vehement desire for "proper" laws and the ability to sue "them" lacks detail — do you know what you really want, and if so, what is it?

sxdfvgbnhjhgbv 16y ago
How many degrees of separation are they allowed? Your face book page links to the eff = rejected? A friend of yours links to eff, a friend of a friend ^ 6 links to eff? Also AFAIK you don't put a social security number on facebook. Do they just look up John Doe, assume thats you and base their decision on that person?
eru 16y ago
Why do they have to get those information from facebook at all? Why not reform the process of getting citizenship to something much simpler and saner? Just auction off all the slots for new citizenships each year. (Or get rid of those limits completely, and just let anybody in whose richer or better educated than the average, plus some room for political asylum.)
- anigbrowl 16y ago
  Those are questions of policy rather than law. What you propose seems very sensible to me from an economic and diplomatic point of view. But as you must have noticed, there are a lot of people who are loudly against more immigration; primarily illegal immigration, but once you get past that the main lobbying groups (CIS, FAIR) would like less of all immigration. Also, such reforms are never popular during periods of high unemployment; and finally, a very small number of people who come to the US are actual crooks fleeing from justice, or involved in the flesh trade, etc..
  - eru 16y ago
    I know. Though limits on immigration don't make auctioning off a bad idea. Quite the opposite, they make it more necessary. Crooks and other nasty people should be dealt with. Whether they are new or old Americans. But we shouldn't make more things criminal than necessary.

sxdfvgbnhjhgbv 16y ago

How many degrees of separation are they allowed? Your face book page links to the eff = rejected? A friend of yours links to eff, a friend of a friend ^ 6 links to eff? Also AFAIK you don't put a social security number on facebook. Do they just look up John Doe, assume thats you and base their decision on that person?

eru 16y ago

Why do they have to get those information from facebook at all? Why not reform the process of getting citizenship to something much simpler and saner? Just auction off all the slots for new citizenships each year. (Or get rid of those limits completely, and just let anybody in whose richer or better educated than the average, plus some room for political asylum.)

anigbrowl 16y ago
Those are questions of policy rather than law. What you propose seems very sensible to me from an economic and diplomatic point of view. But as you must have noticed, there are a lot of people who are loudly against more immigration; primarily illegal immigration, but once you get past that the main lobbying groups (CIS, FAIR) would like less of all immigration. Also, such reforms are never popular during periods of high unemployment; and finally, a very small number of people who come to the US are actual crooks fleeing from justice, or involved in the flesh trade, etc..
- eru 16y ago
  I know. Though limits on immigration don't make auctioning off a bad idea. Quite the opposite, they make it more necessary. Crooks and other nasty people should be dealt with. Whether they are new or old Americans. But we shouldn't make more things criminal than necessary.