> Zuckerberg said incidents like the live streaming of the > Christchurch mosque attacks were the result of “bad > actors”; not bad technology and a time dela

> Zuckerberg said incidents like the live streaming of the > Christchurch mosque attacks were the result of “bad > actors”; not bad technology and a time delay would disrupt > the enjoyment of users who broadcast events like birthday > parties or group hangouts. In this case, he is 100% correct. Facebook, or social media in general, is a tool. A powerful tool, but a tool nevertheless. Knives for example aren't evil and are important for cooking/cutting, yet there are many knife attacks in London all of the time. A time delay doesn't solve the problem, the Christchurch terrorist could have pretended to act in some acceptable manner for the checks and then performed the atrocities after passing them (and checked from another account). He could have filmed his drive to the Mosque and discussed the weather, for example, to bypass initial checks. > “It is a technology which is capable of causing great > harm,” Edwards told RNZ. I hope he also advocates for the banning of vehicles, banning of knives - or any other mundane object that causes many deaths a year. Perhaps he also calls for GPS trackers to be put into every knife sold [0]? > “They are morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable > genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of > democratic institutions. Except they are actively banning people (against their own guidelines on acceptable Facebook use) that could possibly upset left-wing establishments [1]. I don't think Facebook could possibly bend any further to the NZ governments will. I don't think silicon valley could have possibly done any more to try to remove the shooting content [2]. [0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/14/mp-mocked-suggesting-knives-should-fitted-gps-trackers/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/14/mp-mocked-sugges... [1] https://goldfiremedia.net/2019/02/27/censor-sweep-tommy-robinson-and-other-ukip-members-permanently-banned-from-facebook/ https://goldfiremedia.net/2019/02/27/censor-sweep-tommy-robi... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/video-of-christchurch-attack-runs-on-social-media-and-news-sites https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/video-of-chris...