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The underlying logic of the reporting blaming Facebook for the Rohingya genocide is that Facebook somehow has more power than a totalitarian, genocidal military
by makomk 8y ago
The underlying logic of the reporting blaming Facebook for the Rohingya genocide is that Facebook somehow has more power than a totalitarian, genocidal military dictatorship. Given that assumption it's hard to see why we shouldn't also treat any restrictions they place on speech in the same way as we would a totalitarian government.
- tareqak 8y agoI disagree. I think the underlying logic of the reporting blaming Facebook is that it was used as a tool to foment hatred against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. Both the statements “The Myanmar government is waging genocide against the Rohingya minority” and “Facebook doesn’t have a complete grasp of what its platform is being used to accomplish” can be true.
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