Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan. She referenced shooting the student or the school. She meant it as a frustrated joke. Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor.
No student reported her. No parent. No coworker. The flag was entirely automated. Snapchat’s policy permits voluntary emergency disclosures to law enforcement — no warrant required — when the platform determines imminent harm exists. The algorithm makes that initial call. Think of it like your Ring doorbell deciding to call 911 on its own, except the doorbell is reading your text messages.
Not as deep rooted as the person who thinks AI snitching and automated police response to a private conversation is ok.
I hope the thought police come for you one day. And I hope absolutely nobody lifts a finger to help you because they don’t approve of whatever you were doing that the thought police came after you for.
Everyone gets outraged when someone shoots up a school then outraged again when it turns out the fbi has been watching them and “didn’t do their job”. Can’t fucking have it both ways.
Someone says “shoot” a kid, they deserve to be questioned.
Every mother fucking time
There’s a difference between “the FBI is watching this person because they present a real or at least realistic threat” and “social media ratting someone out to the state bcs of a joke”.
Idgaf how poor you find the taste of the joke, nobody deserves to be questioned under those circumstances.
Someone says they approve of the thought police, that person should have the entire contents of every device they own made public. Every mother fucking time.