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But aren't they applying to be a student in the US? Who is US to decide if a non-citizen can or cannot have freedom of speech? What a tone deaf comment was that
by MinimalAction 1y ago
But aren't they applying to be a student in the US? Who is US to decide if a non-citizen can or cannot have freedom of speech? What a tone deaf comment was that!
- BeetleB 1y agoI think the gray area is that the student is not in the US. They are in another country, and are applying at a consulate/embassy. Many of the rights US residents have don't apply to visa applicants. In any case, there are plenty of examples in the past where the US denied people entry based on stuff they've publicly said/written. What's different here is requiring you to disclose all your handles and make them public.
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoThis really shouldn't be a gray area, if we just actually applied the constitution. The first amendment doesn't grant the people the freedom of speech, it restricts Congress from passing any law that infringes upon it.
- pyuser583 1y agoThis ultra-literalist approach leads to the conclusion that nothing in the constitution prevents states from outlawing speech or establishing a religion.
- potato3732842 1y agoThey didn't just stop at 1 amendment. There's a bunch of others that have been interpreted as covering those eventualities and many more.
- grafmax 1y agowe don’t get our rights from our government. It can only recognize these rights. Free speech is a human right whether or not a government recognizes it. People under an authoritarian regime still have a human right to free speech even if that regime outlaws it.