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submitted 2 years ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Cybersteel@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Wait what the heck is an illegal abortion? You mean getting one from unlicensed practioners? Some do it time to time to save money or don't know any better.

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[-] Technomancer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

She aborted at 28 weeks. That's nearly 6 and a half months pregnant. Most babies can survive outside the womb when they're around 22 to 23 weeks. This was a baby, not some tiny fetus.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I was born decades ago and 2 months early; in the glass box for weeeeks to beat the 11% survival-at-all stats.

Having said that, IT'S STILL NOT FACEBOOK'S BUSINESS as a conveyor and not a filter.

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[-] smegger@lemmy.podycust.co.uk 9 points 2 years ago

Perhaps this may be the case. But I'm sure she'd have got the abortion far earlier if not for these backwards laws against it

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[-] Kotton@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

When are they going to rebrand to 2facedbook?

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[-] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

did anyone actually read the article? you guys are responding like meta sent this data on its own. it was issued a search warrant after the two women told police that they had discussed the third trimester (28 week) abortion on facebook. they literally gave the police the tip off and meta just followed the law written by the people elected in that state by properly responding to the search warrant.

do i like meta? no. do i agree with abortion law as it is? no.
do i think meta should follow the law? yes.

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[-] frostwhitewolf@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

That’s messed up

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Another case of Meta cowering in front of local extremist laws. For those arguing that it should follow the local laws, hell no and fuck you. Do you realize Saudi Arabia for instance officially calls atheists terrorists and that we could imagine Meta handing over lists of atheists based on private conversations to the Saudi government to have them beheaded using some bogus anti-terrorism search warrant? We're not very far from that if we still believe Meta did nothing wrong.

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