‘Land of Freedom’ requires inspection on student social networks – and bolsominions find Brazil a dictatorship?

New American measure requires foreign students to allow social networking inspection to get a visa, at risk of being barred by “online conduct”

While the heralds of “Brazil became Venezuela” are hallucinating about alleged political persecution in the country, the true manual of authoritarianism is being written well to the north – by the government that these same critics so much idolize. This Wednesday (25), the US embassy in Brazil announced that, from now on, student visa candidates will have their profiles on Uncle Sam scrutinized. Yes, reader, you have not read it wrong: to study in the “country of freedom”, you need to open your digital life to Federal Inspection.

What does the statement say?

According to the diplomatic note, the American consulates will make a “comprehensive and thorough check” of the online behavior of the applicants. In other words, if you posted that joke about the McDonald’s hamburger being bad, better cheer for the state department algorithm not consider this a “threat to American values.” The measure applies to visas:

• F (Universities students)
• M (vocational courses)
• J (cultural exchanges)

And no use appealing to incognito mode: profiles need to be open to the public. “Getting a visa for the US is a privilege, not a right”decree the text, in a sentence that could very well leave a manual of authoritarian regimes – but, of course, when it is Washington who says, becomes “security protocol.”

Hypocrisy in two acts

1. Pockets and the myth of the “Brazilian dictatorship”: Meanwhile, in Brazil, the same class that cries “censorship” because it cannot curse STF ministers in networks now need to explain why a country that requires login and password From its networks to grant seen it is the “Lighthouse of Democracy”.
2. The double standard of “national security”: If Brazil proposed something similar, it would be immediately taxed as “communist” or “Castrist”. But when the US – who have already spied on to Germany’s chancellor – do, becomes “protection of western values.”

What is behind the measure? The justification is classic: “Protect national interests” (Read: Hunt any mention of criticism of the Trump government, immigration or-God free-socialism). But irony is delicious: the same country that accuses other nations of “massive vigilance” now requires foreign students to expose their private conversations to access a university.

And the Brazilian “liberals”? Deafening silence. No indignant tweet of MBL. No video sealing of the “world without gates”. After all, when the wall is built by Republicans, it becomes “sovereignty.” When it is suggested by a left -wing government, it becomes “oppression.”

While Brazil debates policies of inclusion and access to education, the US – under the pretext of “fighting threats” – transforms the student visa into a bureaucratic Big Brother. And the funniest? Who passes cloth for this is the same guys who, in Brazil, cries “dictatorship” when a judge has fake news erases.

Question that does not want to silence: If the STF asked your Instagram to judge a process, would you call democracy or authoritarianism? So it is.