Facebook Monitors Chats, Reports to Police

So if you cuss out your brother and tell him "I'm gonna kick your ass," on facebook, FaceBook will contact the appropriate law enforcement agency, where an officer will be dispatched with instructions to kick both your and your brother's asses? That's one possible use for their service which seems to be intended to pick up the slack Chris Hansen and Dateline NBC are leaving?

 

if we want to catch predators and terrorists then this is just fine with me


sounds like a good system...as long as it isnt abused for other purposes

 

it'll probably be used to catch evil marry wanna dealers

 

dammit...I'll be expecting a knock on my door anyday now...

 

just the dumb ones who sell on facebook and use chat

 

Fuck facebook it is just high school drama all over again.

 

Im unfriending you and blocking you for saying that !!!!!!

 

role playing with my gf on fakebook just got more interesting..

dont you wish i had a fakebook??

 

heh I was more worried this would apply to drugs. Plus I've been on Facebook for like 4 years or so already. One should always be careful regardless, though. Especially avoiding discussion of bulk amounts and direct terms.

 

Oh, they're watching you too....

Remember that facebook will NEVER delete your data, and they WILL eventually go after everyone for everything, it's really easy to sell this as "saving the kids", when they go after rapists and pedophiles, but then they'll be saving the kids from horrible drugs like pot, heroin, and LSD:mickey:

 

I just wanna give kids candy to promote childhood obesity.. not to rape them

 

I am not shocked by this at all. I think the best idea is to delete most people, once they start to brag or upload pictures that give an detail away of underage drinking, smoking, or just anything that could be illegal. Possibly put you at risk in the future, just by association..

 

Meh, I don't really have a problem with that. People should always be careful what they say and do online anyway.

And anything - ANYTHING - that will help to catch paedophiles is a good thing in my mind.

 

What about the pedophiles who run the government and religious institutions? You act like the government and law enforcement are pure and innocent, and serve to actually protect the rights of innocent people.

If you don't have a problem with this, then you probably don't have a problem with much of anything the government does.

 

That is kind of like me saying if you DO have a problem with it, then you DO have a problem with paedophiles being caught on Facebook. Not really logical as an argument.

I never said that the government is pure and innocent, I just said that anything in my mind that helps to catch at least some of these disgusting people is doing good. It's better than none of them being caught at all.

 

Yes, people should be careful with what they say and do, and not just online.

But how far is it reasonable to let authorities go under the guise of attempting to catch pedophiles, or terrorists, or whatever is the latest stereotype we should all hate?

Do you REALLY not understand how something like this is dangerous for all of us or do you just hate pedophiles so much you would sacrifice, in your words, anything for just the possibility of catching one of these "disgusting" people?

I've said it a bunch of times before, the more influence government and authorities have over the Internet, the worse it is for humanity at large. The scary part is how many people seem happy to relinquish their human and civil rights just to feel a little safer, often from imagined threats.

 

dont understand why anyone with an iota of intelligence or a brain still uses it, but good luck to all the agency employees who have to trawl through mind numbingly crap and chatter from attention seekers and those who have nothing better to do with their time. must be a better way to earn a buck surely.

 

'you're either with us, or you're with the child pornographers'