

US Secret Service Wants To Identify Snark 213
beschra (1424727) writes "From the article: 'The U.S. Secret Service is seeking software that can identify top influencers and trending sets of social media data, allowing the agency to monitor these streams in real-time — and sift through the sarcasm. "We are not currently aware of any automated technology that could do that (detect sarcasm). No one is considered a leader in that,'" Jamie Martin, a data acquisition engineer at Sioux Falls, SD based Bright Planet, told CBS News.'
Why not just force Twitter to change TOS to require sarcasm tag?"
Why not just force Twitter to change TOS to require sarcasm tag?"
Re:What? (Score:5, Informative)
Well ... gee ... let me think.
This kid [rt.com]:
It's a real thing, it has happened already. No evidence of a crime (or even the actual intent to commit one). But someone sees it and goes "eep", and then you get dragged off to jail.
You seem to be under the impression this isn't happening already.
It is.
So, ask me again if I think what I said is a plausible scenario. Because I said it with the full knowledge it has already happened.