4 ms·
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo... I don't think it
by lallysingh 8y ago
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
I don't think it's that far apart.
- bilbo0s 8y agoIt's pretty far apart to be honest. What FB and Suu Kyi do in Myanmar is terrible, but they would have to replicate the same genocide in every nation across the globe to match the body count of the tobacco guys. (Which they may manage to do in the future. Who knows? But to date they are just not there yet to be perfectly frank.)
- austenallred 8y agoIt really doesn’t make sense to me that the argument is basically this: “The x military shared anti-y Facebook posts, then caused a genocide of the y people.” And Facebook is at fault? Do we really expect Facebook to police speech at that level, or should we not place the blame with the military? Those posts came from .0000066% of Facebook’s users. If you’re Facebook how do you effectively police that?
- lallysingh 8y agoHey those kids chose to smoke those Camels! How's the cigarette company responsible?
- austenallred 8y agoYou really don’t see any difference there?
- lallysingh 8y agoChildren and militaries will act predictably. How Facebook reacts is the variable under question.