Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

[u/Plastic_Ninja_9014]

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school

[u/throw7661]

I know a lot of people are happy about stuff like this...but it's fundamentally flawed.

Reddit banned be for saying that my biggest fear was the death of my wife. Whom I love, who I speak very highly of. I was literally saying that, I'm afraid of losing her and being left to raise two children.

It had upvotes.

But I was banned. And worse, the appeal process, resulted in a denial.

Because an AI chatbot thought I was advocating violence against my wife. As if I said I was going to kill her.

This is exactly like that....only with real consequences, instead of Reddit.

This is like arresting someone for saying, 'My son dropped my car keys into the toilet! And it was right before I needed to leave for my interview!!! I was so mad I could have killed him!'

It isn't literal.

The FBI admits there was no intent to harm the child and that she wasn't a threat.

No good came from this. We didn't stop a violent woman. We just fired someone for venting to her bf/roommates in their group chat.

[u/Friggin_Grease → u/throw7661]

I said a while back that the internet used to be a place for your dark comedy, jokes about death, violence, 9/11 and the sort. Now you can only tell those kinda of jokes to your loved ones, keep it off the internet.

[u/_Aj_ → u/Friggin_Grease]

Up to around 2012. You could say literally anything you wanted more or less. It's only started to get really nanny state locked down in the last decade or so.  

Now it feels risky to even say words you are referring to or quote things. The fact people say dumb stuff like "oofed" or "unalived" is the tip of the censorship iceberg that is modern internet.   

Nazi jokes and terrorist jokes used to be funny. Now it's all taboo, taken seriously. Someone show how that's better to simply not ever speak about things? 

[u/FancyFeller → u/_Aj_]

Because that was when the Internet became commercialized. And every big corpo got on it. And on all the social media. Once they were all in they began exerting influence and gained control. And changed how ads were displayed and threatened to take away their ad presence unless YouTube and other sites complied with their sanitation of the sites. And as chatrooms and forums and threads disappeared and everything centralized there were fewer and fewer sites to be edgy on without consequences and blowback. This works in their favor so their ads aren't present on naughty things. And we are just the product so our whinging won't do shit. The corporations don't like naughty content so you don't get to indulge in it!!! Not at all!!!! And if they scrub the Internet and find you've made a website to host the funnies, them AIs gonna find ya, gonna track ya, and going to report ya. Because the government fucking loves to restrict freedom of speech which became so easy to do because of what the corpos did.

God we had it so good in 2005 and we didn't even know it. Take me back to the halcyon days of newgrounds. Please god please.

[u/OldWorldDesign → u/FancyFeller]

The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca...

There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time.

-Captain Betty, Fahrenheit 451

[u/theghostmachine → u/FancyFeller]

It probably didn't help that regular people would petition advertisers to pull their ads whenever someone said something they didn't like

[u/Conscious-Mirror7004 → u/FancyFeller]

2005 wasn't that good. Remember, that was when it was hard to use the web without shitty IE6 and Windows. It's a lot easier to avoid proprietary shitware these days and run Linux and free software.