Welcome to the brave new world.
Next step: Automated execution.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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Welcome to reality. Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, intsagram, etc. They are not private. Just don't use them. It's wild how people are willfully ignorant about this.
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I'd had so many police visits in my teenage years in the 90s and early 00s if there were this level of automated surveillance.
Why did you choose such a clickbatey title?
Just the other day there was a post about whether Catholic priests giving confession should be legally mandated reporters of crimes that are confessed to them. Totally opposite vibe in this comment section.
It's as if people think corporations should be less regulated than religions.
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This bullshit is getting out of hand.
I know it's not nearly the same level, but over on reddit I participated in a thread. Nevermind full context, someone said something about "The first half of life [something]", someone replied "and the second half of life [something]" and I jokingly said "And the third half of life, you're dead."
Couple replied to that - it was minorly amusing in context - and one of them said "Now I'm sad". So I jokingly said "Well, good news is you won't be sad when you're dead".
Within a few minutes, I got a warning from reddit and the comment removed.
So I appealed the warning (because if AI removes another comment, you get a 3 day suspension, then 7 day, then 30 day, then permanent), but also rephrased the commeny and basically make the joke while not even saying "dead", but I also rolled my eyes at the reddit AI.
I almost immediately got a permanent ban.
THEN THE STUPIDEST BIT: They overturned the warning BUT KEPT THE PERMANENT BAN.
Fucking idiots.
Dont' judge me for still spending some time on reddit, I mod a couple of places. THAT account is still going, but I also don't use that account except to mod because of this bullshit with reddit that's been getting worse.
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