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Foreign "spies" and agents can identify as undergrads just easily as people in more sensitive areas. Not everyone who calls themselves a student is pure of hea
by quantummagic 1y ago
Foreign "spies" and agents can identify as undergrads just easily as people in more sensitive areas. Not everyone who calls themselves a student is pure of heart and there just for the pursuit of knowledge and personal development.
- stego-tech 1y agoI refuse to engage in surveillance just to satisfy a hypothetical bad actor when it comes to freedom of speech, and I will not abdicate that position. Take your neo-McCarthyism to someone less firm in their support of free speech as to believe hypothetical spies warrant constant surveillance of innocents.
- quantummagic 1y agoVery naive. You're putting a gaping hole in your countries defenses. There's nothing wrong with foreign visitors being subject to extra security; to ensure that they are operating within acceptable bounds, and if not, having their visitor status revoked.
- tencentshill 1y agoFar from hypothetical, it's happening in the UK on behalf of China https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvn308789go https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvn308789go What do you propose should be done to stop that? Ban all Chinese students from applying or communicating with home?