<story><title>US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US</title><url>https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-database-derogatory-information-giant-oak-gost/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorbachev</author><text>There are good things about the US and bad things about the US.&lt;p&gt;Are foreigners not allowed to criticize anything?</text></item><item><author>justrealist</author><text>Yeah like, there is a broad class of immigrant that endlessly complains about how awful the US is an awful force in the world, and then immigrates here for a high-paying job (and continues complaining).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want them! Why should we be required to ignore their personal feelings?&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a long list of people who want into the US.  We should prioritize the people who actually &lt;i&gt;like&lt;/i&gt; the US, this doesn&amp;#x27;t feel controversial.</text></item><item><author>shtopointo</author><text>What am I missing here?&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t it a good idea to vet people before you let them enter your country? Why would you let in someone that is hostile to your country? Especially these days with so many individuals being driven by nefarious ideologies?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m torn on the whole subject.&lt;p&gt;On one hand, techno-surveillance is scary and it rarely marches backward, so letting this happen for citizenship applications will have a chilling effect on foreign intellectuals, and train people who may consider entering this country some day not to speak their mind.&lt;p&gt;I understand the theory that we don&amp;#x27;t want people coming here who rant all day saying &amp;quot;US is a terrorist state and something should be done about it&amp;quot; on social media. But I&amp;#x27;m not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.</text></comment>
<story><title>US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US</title><url>https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-database-derogatory-information-giant-oak-gost/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorbachev</author><text>There are good things about the US and bad things about the US.&lt;p&gt;Are foreigners not allowed to criticize anything?</text></item><item><author>justrealist</author><text>Yeah like, there is a broad class of immigrant that endlessly complains about how awful the US is an awful force in the world, and then immigrates here for a high-paying job (and continues complaining).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want them! Why should we be required to ignore their personal feelings?&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a long list of people who want into the US.  We should prioritize the people who actually &lt;i&gt;like&lt;/i&gt; the US, this doesn&amp;#x27;t feel controversial.</text></item><item><author>shtopointo</author><text>What am I missing here?&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t it a good idea to vet people before you let them enter your country? Why would you let in someone that is hostile to your country? Especially these days with so many individuals being driven by nefarious ideologies?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RHSeeger</author><text>&amp;gt; Are foreigners not allowed to criticize anything?&lt;p&gt;This seems fairly disingenuous. Nobody said foreigners shouldn&amp;#x27;t be allowed to criticize anything. Rather, the &amp;quot;for&amp;quot; argument is that their criticism should be analyzed to see if it would be detrimental to let them into the country.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;My house&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t exactly a good analogy for &amp;quot;the country&amp;quot;, but to be overly simplistic&lt;p&gt;1. Your house is an ugly color&lt;p&gt;2. Your house is a blight on the land; you should be tossed to the street and it burned to the ground&lt;p&gt;Those are both criticisms of the the house. They are entirely different things to consider when deciding whether that person should be allowed in the house.</text></comment>