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Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (20 children)

If law enforcement knocks on my door with a valid warrant I'm going to comply. It would be nice to have some legal assistance to help validate the warrant but at the end of the day in this case it was almost certainly valid.

If this was about a murder rather than abortion people would be applauding Meta for helping catch the murderer. I think what people are actually mad about is the law, and they are using Meta as a scapegoat.

But at the end of the day E2EE is the best solution here. Don't give private data to others, they can't be trusted because they can be compelled by the law.

[+] Chippyr -28 points 1 year ago (12 children)

She was 7 months pregnant. It was a murder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Single sentence "hot takes" like this help no one. They only serve as dopamine hits for people who agree with your statement already.

[–] Chippyr -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What else is there to add? The baby has been baking for 7 months. If you are okay with aborting babies 7 months into pregnancy there is something seriously fucked up with your head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chill, I'm not, but that's not really relevant here.

People who think it's a fetus and not a baby aren't going to be convinced by you just being upset. If you look at most comments, 7 months vs 1 week is meaningless to anyone who hasn't had a kid.

Spell it out more if you want any chance whatsoever of getting through to anyone who doesn't already agree with you:

Fetuses are viable outside the womb at 24 weeks, roughly 5.5 months. This person could have had an abortion legally and safely at any point during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, but instead waited 8 weeks further and did it ad-hoc and unsafely.