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You hold a very minority opinion. Personally I don't see a problem with this kind of monitoring, AND I would go further...

- There are many many young people on facebook. Every year a percentage of these innocents decide to kill themselves. I think facebook have a MORAL OBLIGATION to monitor all language used in facebook posts in order to ascertain potential suicide threats - which should then be reported to the appropriate authorities.

- Every year thousands of people die of hear attacks brought about by years of unhealthy living. It is facebooks MORAL RESPONSIBILITY to monitor the word density of posts, giving extra weight to words like 'pie', 'cake' and 'spachumnauzer' - These perpetrators should be reported to the relevant NHS department for immediate medically induced coma therapy[1]

- EVERY, SINGLE, YEAR, millions of illegal immigrants done come over to our country illegally, in order to steal our benefits. Facebooks continued lack of action in monitoring facebook photos for suspicious foreign looking persons in a job type role consists of MORAL CONSTIPATION on the part of Facebook. All foreign-ish photos should be vetted by the appropriate vets.

[1] study after study show people in comas are at a significantly lessenered risk of dying of heart attacks - I don't have the links right now, but believe me, they do!




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