Shanmugha

That same autopilot that is advertised as 1000% safer than any human driver? Guess who should be charged

That amount is missing quite a few zeros

Oh, they learn all right: “hey, we can pull so much bullshit off and they still pay us. Let’s do more next time”

I am not downvoting only because you are already prepared for that

One should assume everything they say on the internet is public, even “private” messages on a social media app

Factually and sadly - true. But this is not how things should be

The person who sent the message needed that reality check after saying something so stupid

Nah. There is a difference between literal meaning and the real thought and intention behind words

Though this was a false alarm, it showed a semblance of responsibly from a social media company that is typically evil and indifferent

It only showed the company to be evil and indifferent. The evidence towards this interpretation is that at least I have not once heard of any actual crime-about-to-happen they stopped. So they can fuck right off with this

It is not the fault of the social media company that the FBI chose to act on the information

It is their fault for violating their users’ privacy in a manner that does no good and much harm. It is even bigger fault to let any part of the process between “someone sent message” and “it has been reported to officials” be handled by automation without any human overseing. It is going to be even bigger fault if there was actually a human involved and they just let this happen