Now imagine if every single person who rt and liked (a total of 10k) picked up the phone and called the Senate Commerce Committee members and told them to vote against the SCREEN Act instead of engaging for 5 seconds with a tweet and acting like that's gonna do anything.
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A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.
A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.
An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.
here's what happened in between.
Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.
she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."
police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.
This means:
Snapchat scans private messages.
Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.
Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.
in under an hour.
Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.
you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.
the message was private.
it wasn't.
A Texas judge just ordered Discord to turn on the age checks it built for the UK.
The same face scans, same ID uploads, now for everyone in the state. Britain wrote the rule and Texas imported it.
So a judge told them to turn it on.
Texans will have to show a face scan or government ID to access legal speech.
The SCREEN Act was written by Mike Lee, a mormon from Utah. It forces every single adult to upload their IDs to third parties to "access adult content". What they don't tell you is this will apply to social media sites, while they lie and say "So you want kids to see porn?"
Keep in mind that Texas is the same state that just had 3 MILLION government IDs get leaked, and that leak had NOTHING to do with online age verification
Imagine how much worse it will be when they mandate all social medias to do ID verification
When a govt points to porn & says we have to protect kids from it by passing laws that make you upload ID to see it, what they don't tell you is that law will apply to books, comics, information, social media and they will track and arrest you.
Don't believe me? Look at the UK.
Totally bonkers that Texas requires its citizens to get a permission slip to use communications technology.
Given Discord's record on age verification, I highly doubt the company has an appetite for a fight. That will be for another company on another day.
The SCREEN ACT fucking sucks and will make things even harder for SWs.
This link will point you to how you can help oppose this legislation. (It is easy! Click plz)
@ImBreckWorsham It’s the cameras on the LEO vehicles too. Logging where you were, what time and day, how fast you were going. AI mapping it all. Scanning every plate in real time.
It’s for your safety, obviously