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Warning! Possibly unpopular opinion ahead: I want them to monitor Facebook and Instagram for domestic threats in real time... I would really like that so please
by ConcernedCoder 7y ago
Warning! Possibly unpopular opinion ahead: I want them to monitor Facebook and Instagram for domestic threats in real time... I would really like that so please do, and when you detect them, without abusing anyone's rights, please go and arrest them quickly ( on legitimate charges with supporting evidence of course ) BEFORE they shoot up churches, malls and walmarts.
- t-writescode 7y agoWhat makes a phone call over a wireless carrier worthy of more protection that a private text chat between two people? (The former being protected by federal wiretapping laws that have been around a looooong time)
- positive_future 7y agoWell for one, the article never specified anything about private text chats (unless I missed it?) so I think you're asking a misleading question. Most of the article was about the US government/FBI looking to read public data, which AFAIK has never been protected by wiretapping laws. Additionally, something that is different is the scale. In the US, an activity may be legal if done once but if done millions of times it may be illegal. Here, there are many times more people plotting, discussing, and celebrating terrorist events online than there are on traditional phone calls. Having phone calls be traditionally 1-1 and private internet chats be 1-many, even 1-1000000 or 1 to 7000000000 if public, is a totally different beast. I'm not sure there is any analogous previous laws, I think we need new laws.