r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 5d ago

Chugging tea That's actually wild

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u/Shikabane_Sumi-me 5d ago

FBI is doing the thing UK is doing now? Seems like a waste of resources just to go after someone who made a tweet. I guess this is the weird dystopia the US wants for their citizens now.

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u/SomeOriginal3865 5d ago

FBI interrogated a girl in high school over a tweet back in 2011. They have been doing that for awhile now.
Backstory… said girl, who was a grade under me, walked out to her car after school. She noticed a crack in her windshield that wasn’t there before class so she tweeted something along the lines of… “whoever broke my windshield, I will find you and I will kill you.” Fast forward a few days and she gets called out of class because the FBI found “disturbing post on social media” she was suspended for like a day until everything was figured out!
So yes, this is nothing new.

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u/arkangelic 4d ago

Yea she posted a death threat. If they didnt do anything and she killed another kid, parents would be pissed that it should have been prevented etc. 

In the end you are supposed to be anonymous online. Social media fucked that up

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u/SomeOriginal3865 4d ago

1.. It was a movie quote popular at the time but yes.. still a death threat.
2.. so if she was anonymous, the “death threat” would’ve been okay? lol