Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉Jul 7, 2023

This is a warning about Meta and Threads.

Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.

I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.

#abortionrights #pregnant #threads

Show threadboojitJul 7, 2023

@crowgirl Interesting. Here's what I believe to be the link to the story in that screenshot:

https://jezebel.com/nebraska-teen-pleads-guilty-to-charges-related-to-self-1850465933

Looks to me like Meta was served with a warrant and they complied with the warrant.

Definitely not trying to go to bat for Meta here, but I'm not sure that there is much they could do in this particular case. (that said, IA-definitely-NAL and for all I know they could have fought this).

Nebraska Teen Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Self-Managed Abortion

Celeste Burgess, 18, faces up to two years in prison for taking abortion pills and burying a stillborn fetus in 2022. Her mother faces eight years.

Jezebel
Show threadJosh Colletta
@boojit @crowgirl What was Nebraska going to do, try to send someone from Meta to jail for non-compliance? Bullshit warrants like that don't get recognized. Facebook is complicit in criminalizing a non-crime.
Jul 7, 2023 at 9:48pmWeb
Show threadboojitJul 7, 2023

@officialunofficialjdc @crowgirl Good point. I don't know how these things go, but guessing a corpo laywer's algorithm is pretty much "valid warrant == compliance", end of story. Hopefully a lawyer will chime in here.

Can I just take this opportunity to say fuck this law, fuck this criminal case (no crime was committed) and especially FUCK the NE county attorney responsible for prosecuting this.

Show threadJosh CollettaJul 7, 2023
@boojit @crowgirl Hear hear!