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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. (www.gadgetreview.com)
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Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan. She referenced shooting the student or the school. She meant it as a frustrated joke. Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor.

No student reported her. No parent. No coworker. The flag was entirely automated. Snapchat’s policy permits voluntary emergency disclosures to law enforcement — no warrant required — when the platform determines imminent harm exists. The algorithm makes that initial call. Think of it like your Ring doorbell deciding to call 911 on its own, except the doorbell is reading your text messages.

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No.

If you think there's anything acceptable about arresting someone and nuking their career over a joke made in a private forum, you are the one with no business being anywhere near kids. You won't teach them anything except how to be good subservient little serfs for their corporate masters, and that's the last thing any kid needs to hear more of.

Please consider another career. I hear the military is a great place for bootlickers. And with your contempt for freedom and privacy you'd probably make a great cop.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

You’re going on about bootlickers when the entire point of my post was about teachers should not be making any comments, whatsoever, about shooting a kid.

I can’t believe how wrong some of you Lemmy people are about this whole thing and the critical thinking you all are applying. I’m not even talking about the legality or morality of the tech of it, but rather on this person’s demeanor in a demanding profession with 20-25 different personalities and needs who will test you.

By the way, do you need a hug? 🤗

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

You’re going on about bootlickers

If it bothers you so much maybe stop deepthroating that boot for a minute so we can talk.

the entire point of my post was about teachers should not be making any comments, whatsoever, about shooting a kid.

The entire point of your post was that thoughtcrime is totally valid and should be punishable with state violence and enforced poverty. That makes you a useful idiot for fascism and just a generic idiot for everyone else.

can’t believe how wrong some of you Lemmy people are about this whole thing and the critical thinking you all are applying

Maybe you should try some critical thinking of your own then, and realize that thoughtcrime is never a valid concept.

A teacher joking about shooting a student is no more horrible, nor any less likely than an ER doc joking about motorcyclists being "walking organ donors". Cops showing up because an AI ratted out a joke someone made in private is 1000 times more horrific and dangerous than someone making a joke you think is over the line.

By the way, do you need a hug?

No, I need a world where "but it's to protect kids!" doesn't automatically make most people just happily accept any idiocy the speaker wants to assert.