>as it prepares to implement comprehensive social media screening for all international applicants

Thought police.

This should really be a bigger deal. The administration's speedrunning of authoritarianism seems to have many people in a daze. If someone had told you a year ago that the US would soon be halting all student visa interviews you would probably have laughed out loud at such an absurd prediction, yet here we are.

Name a respected and accomplished government that attacked education.