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Does it then follow that it is their role to do not do anything? If I was a machete manufacturer and people in Myanmar were chopping minorities up with them, I

• roenxi 6y ago
  I don't know about 'follows', but yes their role is to connect people and enable the growth of communities (with the end goal of having happy users to show ads to). Facebook has no moral obligations for what communities discuss or even then go on to do. They probably do have a legal responsibility to do what the police order them to do. It isn't like supermarkets have a role in only feeding the righteous, or educators to only educate the children of good people or bridge builders to only build bridges that moral people can cross. Corporations are a tool of doing things, not deciding political direction. If Facebook has a moral imperative to intervene in Myanmar, then they have a moral imperative to try and topple a number of governments that are corrupt or leading their people in bad directions. And they have all the usual human failings in that they won't correctly identify which ones. It will end either badly or with Facebook engaging in deep hypocrisy and becoming a corrupt but politically active entity.