Facebook has the ability to scan and monitor chat logs and this is not prohibited either by their TOS or provincial law (for Quebec at least). However I am not

Facebook has the ability to scan and monitor chat logs and this is not prohibited either by their TOS or provincial law (for Quebec at least). However I am not sure you realized that I took the discussion a step further by pointing out, although I admit I should have made this clear to begin with, that the concept of ownership of the content of said logs can be divided into several different aspects. There is the intellectual ownership (the ideas contained in the logs), there is the right to consult and have access to the logs, there is the publication right etc. These rights are also independent of one another, someone may have the right to consult the logs, but not to publish, or may have the right to publish, but only once someone who has the right to consult this information has given it to them Also, it bears mentioning that simply claiming my argument is a straw man argument without actually telling me how that is so does nothing to show that it is so the issue of ownership was discussed in the first half of my commentary where i mentioned that Facebook's TOS allowed them do do what was described as such I addressed and confirmed OP's position I then added that there were implications with what was being discussed and proceeded to give an example. Taken alone, yes it would be a straw man argument on my part, however, the point behind my commentary was to show that the practical damage that could be done by such a practice as monitoring and storing the information of chat logs would be minimized by the fact that not everyone can consult and publish that content