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A California man is suing Facebook for allegedly scanning the content of private messages sent between users of the site.
The suit alleges that Facebook scans the messages in search of hyperlinks sent between users. "If there is a link to a web page contained in that message, Facebook treats it as a 'like' of the page, and increases the page's 'like,' counter by one," the suit contends. The site tracks when users "like" pages in order to compile individual profiles that allow third parties to send targeted advertisements.
Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/facebook-sued-for-scanning-private-user-messages/article/2591806
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday May 24 2016, @11:56PM
What you can do is arrest someone for inciting a riot
Nope. Or you can, but it's unconstitutional if all they did was speak. You seem to have bought into the notion that if other people choose to react to your speech by rioting or panicking, that you are responsible for the actions they chose to take, rather than them being responsible for their own actions. I don't believe that. In the end, you're still arrest someone for their speech, because all they did was speak; they took no other actions.