• A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    Holy shit, the amount of surveillance the teens are under is ungodly and people blame the chatbot? And there wasn’t even a human kind enough to speak with the girl before calling the fucking cops? I see a lot of blame to place here, but it’s not the chatbot who is to blame.

    • The kids for bullying her for her tan
    • The school boards implementing the surveillance
    • The parents who allowed such surveillance in the first place
    • The person screening what was flagged for not sending the school counselor to talk with the kid
    • The person calling the cops
    • The cops for arresting an 8th-grader and DOING A STRIP SEARCH AND KEEPING HER OVERNIGHT WTF instead of handing her over to her parents

    Everyone of them failed a 13 year old girl. All of them should be ashamed.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      The cops for arresting an 8th-grader

      This is America, that’s what they do. They love overreacting to small problems.

      I was arrested for self-defence in a highschool fight, the actual bully who attack me did not get in any sort of trouble. If I didn’t have citizenship, there was a chance that incident could’ve led to my deportation, even tho I was a minor. (USCIS can see all your arrests, including those that did not led to a conviction, or even expunged or pardoned offences, and they could retroactively revoke your legal status if they find out you lied.) But luckily charges were dropped because of couse they don’t have the evidence to prove it and I have a clean record so they didn’t bother prosecuting.

      There is probably an alternate timeline somewhere out there in the multiverse where I got deported and had to learn another language that I haven’t spoken for over a decade. Depressing to think about.

      (Well that is still technically a possibility, all they have to do is make up some bullshit about “being a spy” and put me in gitmo)

      • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        I’m in Canada and it’s only marginally better with respect to police under/overreaction. A friend and I once got the “don’t go to school on X day” message and we went immediately to local, provincial, and federal police. No one took us seriously. We had a friend working at CSIS (American analogue would be CIA) look into it and later that week we saw the article in a local paper.

        Police investigated the home and found:

        • 5000 rounds of ammunition
        • body armor
        • explosives
        • only thing he couldn’t get was legal firearms because of his history of mental illness, but he had been working on connections to acquire illegal ones

        Point being we couldn’t get the police to lift a finger to check out what we believed to be a credible threat (this guy never even joked about that stuff), but boy were they willing to burn rubber racing to my school when I committed the crime of defending myself in a “normal” school fight and one of my bullies claimed they felt threatened by me. This event set off a whole series of events, like requiring me to get a full evaluation at a psychiatric facility, before being allowed back in school. Our system is broken.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        They love overreacting to small problems.

        It’s what they do instead of reacting to major problems in any way.

    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      The kids for bullying her for her tan

      To me it didn’t sound like she was being bullied, it seemed like her friends made a stupid joke and then she responded with another stupid joke. Which makes it even stupider that she got arrested. Literally just kids being kids.