Facebook can very quickly look at the suspect's messages to the victim for example and see clearly if the s/he is a real threat before notifying anyone. The th

Facebook can very quickly look at the suspect's messages to the victim for example and see clearly if the s/he is a real threat before notifying anyone. The thing is, at that point we'll have to concede that it's normal and proper for companies to be examining private communications. It's equivalent to a phone company keeping a log of all phone conversations transmitted on their network, then listening to them on a case-by-case basis. It strikes me as odd that it's illegal to do that for voice conversations but not illegal to do that for text conversations.