Is Social media responsible for reporting imminent crimes?

I would be spending all day ratting out jelly’s that nothing would get done. I wonder about some of us might go over the deep end. It is called criminal indifference. Its how the last episode of Seinfeld ended up with the group of four going to jail for a year for.

“Social media” is not a person, so no.

People using so-called “social media” apps or web sites or whatever have a reasonable expectation that everything they see may be nonsense, and that if it’s publicly available and disturbing, that word it going to get around, so no.

People with conscience seeing something they believe and are disturbed about and think there is something to report to someone, will tend to do so. So don’t worry, someone will probably already have reported it, so no you don’t need to feel the need to.

People who run & moderate social media sites also have more responsibility for the content then the users, so no.

And if most people who saw disturbing things on the Internet reported it, the emergency reporting channels would be swamped to the point of uselessness, so NO!

Social media isn’t culpable; just like a calendar isn’t culpable, when something bad happens on a date. People can see both and people need to report things they see and observe.

It would scare the hell out of me to have some machine reporting me to the authorities because I wrote something that some AI software could have misinterpreted.

Or if social media had human “watcher”, I would be creeped out.

I’m not going to give up my freedoms to satisfy the wants of people who advocate for a surveillance state.