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Facebook has activated Safety Check. — https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/brusselsexplosions-march2016/ https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/brusselsexplosion
by Cenk 11y ago
Facebook has activated Safety Check. — https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/brusselsexplosions-march2016/ https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/brusselsexplosions-marc...
I guess it’s official. Facebook Safety Check is for terrorist attacks in white, western countries only. Good to know.
Edit: I was wrong and I take back what I said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Safety_Check#Other_deployments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Safety_Check#Other_de...
- Cyph0n 11y agoLooks like Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia (my home country) and others are not Western enough for Facebook.
- tobltobs 11y agoMaybe Facebook thinks that the Safety Check wont work for countries waging civil wars.
- Cyph0n 11y agoAh I didn't know Tunisia and Turkey had civil wars. I was in both 6 months back, must have happened recently.
- tobltobs 11y agoHow would you call it?
- Cyph0n 11y agoHow would I call what? A civil war is when two or more parties are actively fighting each other within one country. Current examples in the Middle East: Yemen, Libya, and Syria. My country Tunisia is quite peaceful and is a young and successful democracy. Turkey is a stable country but is unfortunately sharing its border with Syria and has some trouble with extremist Kurd separatists. I don't see what you're getting at mate.
- tobltobs 11y agohttp://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/turkey-should-ensure-immediate-access-to-cizre-by-independent-observers?redirect=http://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/home?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_iFWYWFoeqhvQ&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=4 http://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/turkey-should-ensur... If that for example is just "has some trouble with extremist Kurd separatists" then ok.
- tobltobs 11y agohttps://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/ankaraexplosion-feb17-2016/ https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/ankaraexplosion-feb17-2...
- Cenk 11y agoYou are 100% right, Facebook Safety Check was in fact deployed during both Ankara explosions this year, and for an attack in Nigeria late 2015. I take back my (unnecessarily snarky) comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Safety_Check#Other_deployments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Safety_Check#Other_de...