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There is no genuine moral outrage here, anybody with half a brain knows that Facebook is no more to blame for this genocide than the printing press was to blame
by ibeckermayer 9y ago
There is no genuine moral outrage here, anybody with half a brain knows that Facebook is no more to blame for this genocide than the printing press was to blame for the holocaust. Governmental institutions are currently making a concerted effort to falsely blame social media for society's woes in an attempt to rally support for state regulation and control of social media platforms.
- crowbahr 9y agoActual comment from the article: "A colleague acknowledged that the service had helped people in the country communicate with each other." It leaves me dumbfounded that a journalist can write that sentence and not see anything wrong with the whole argument.
- ntsplnkv2 9y ago> Facebook is no more to blame for this genocide than the printing press was to blame for the holocaust. The printing press was a physical machine. How anyone can posit this as an argument with "half a brain" is beyond me. These are completely different scenarios. Facebook can and has a long history of curating content. That immediately makes it different entirely from the printing press. Comparing it to a newspaper is fair-it curates content. Sometimes it is biased, willingly or not. It's a shame that on HN, whenever the industry has issues, it's immediately ignored and shuffled under conspiracy theories/government takeover/etc. There are valid concerns here-never-mind the fact that entities like Facebook and Google are essentially becoming governing bodies.