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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 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I believe there are a few things you simply shouldn't joke about

And I believe that belief makes you a dangerous idiot who'll happily support Fascism.

[–] tekdeb@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Me thinking that joking about killing kids isn't ok makes me a fascist? I don't quite understand how you got to that conclusion, but ok.

To be clear, I didn't say people can't say what they want to. I think that freedom of speech is incredibly important. It's none of my business what you choose to say if I'm not involved, but I would not be comfortable joking around with such a serious topic. If you are, then more power to you I guess?

The relevant part of my reply was about mass surveillance being bad, and I don't think that's a very hot take. What I think about certain dark joke topics doesn't matter.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Any restriction on your freedom to say offensive shit must be fascism, right?

Couldn't you just fuck-off into the woods and enjoy all your freedoms alone?

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago

Any restriction on your freedom to say offensive shit must be fascism, right?

Not what I said. But any restriction that leads to law enforcement intervention without a person complaining damn sure is.

Couldn't you just fuck-off into the woods and enjoy all your freedoms alone?

No, and fuck you for asking. If I have to share the planet with a bunch of copsucking shitbags who believe in thoughtcrime for dead baby jokes but people saying the most horrifically racist, sexist, or homophobic bullshit is just the price of free speech, you can suck it up and deal with there being people out there who can tell the difference between "popular" and "right".