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Sri Lanka has a history of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp amplifying racial hatred, riots and lynchings. They don't trust that Facebook has effectively neutr
by panarky 8y ago
Sri Lanka has a history of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp amplifying racial hatred, riots and lynchings.
They don't trust that Facebook has effectively neutralized a force that is tearing their civilization apart.
If Facebook created a monster that they can no longer control, what else should governments do to protect their citizens?
- pertymcpert 8y agoThe monster exists in their people, not Facebook. I’m no fan of the company but it’s not reasonable to say it’s something wrong they’ve done. Who the hell advocatea violence? Let alone in such large numbers?! Sri Lanka has a deeper problem.
- panarky 8y agoFacebook's signature feature is that it's viral. It amplifies ideas and emotions. And it's most effective at amplifying negative ideas and emotions like rumor, gossip, fear and hate. Of course the root cause is people. But before Facebook, the bad stuff was slow to spread, and geographically localized. Facebook released an accelerant, a catalyst into the world. And Facebook has lost control of the monster it created.
- stickfigure 8y agoHuman beings can't be trusted with the power to communicate among themselves?
- BenMorganIO 8y agoDangerous human beings can't be trusted.
- panarky 8y ago> Human beings can't be trusted with ... Very few items could fill in this blank to make a true statement: "Every human should be trusted with unrestricted and amplified _____________." If you create a superhuman thing and release it into the world, you damn well better control it.