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Quick reminder that Facebook knowingly facilitated a genocide of the Rohingya people.

by mike00632 6y ago

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
Did radio knowingly facilitate the Rwandan genocide?
- mike00632 6y ago
  "Radio" is not a company that profited off the genocide and looked the other way when it happened.
  - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    No, but it's the closest modern equivalent. A communication medium is used to facilitate bad activity, so clearly the correct thing to do is to blame the communication medium. I'm sure Myanmar was full of shiny happy people before Facebook got there, after all \s.
    - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
      > profited off the genocide Also, it's ludicrous to believe that FB actually make any money of Myanmar. They make money from serving ads to the developed world, not poor developing countries.
bertil 6y ago
No, that’s a lie. The local junta used Facebook like they would have used any convenient mode of communication. Facebook wasn’t able to detect it because of a complex issue involving automated translation of non-Ascii languages. They were concerning reports and the relevant team reached out to their contact in the country, the wife of a senior executive and _a Nobel prize recipient_ who both personally denied that anything wrong was happening. The company scrambled to get more context but didn’t have translators willing to tell them the truth because… well there’s an uncomfortable correlation between people speaking Burmese and people who thing Rohingya deserve respect. As soon as the reality was clear, the company acknowledged that they made a mistake in trusting local authorities, not investing more in non-standard software tools and piled on their investment on detecting such project. You can compare that to how much Toyota cares about their logo being at the back on the technical on every photo featuring genocidal warlords and terrorist groups.
- mike00632 6y ago
  You're making excuses. Facebook didn't hire translators even though they were profiting off the genocide. They didn't cut off services. It wasn't just the military but nationalist Buddhists were outing their neighbors, doxxing them as Rohingya, condemning them to death via Facebook. And for you to suggest that Facebook shouldn't be held responsible for their actions because other tech companies would do the same, is lazy and dishonest. The fact is that the genocide was lead by Facebook, not some other tech company, and I will keep reminding people of this event every time some apologist tries to ignore what happened.

Quick reminder that Facebook knowingly facilitated a genocide of the Rohingya people.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago

Did radio knowingly facilitate the Rwandan genocide?

mike00632 6y ago
"Radio" is not a company that profited off the genocide and looked the other way when it happened.
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  No, but it's the closest modern equivalent. A communication medium is used to facilitate bad activity, so clearly the correct thing to do is to blame the communication medium. I'm sure Myanmar was full of shiny happy people before Facebook got there, after all \s.
  - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    > profited off the genocide Also, it's ludicrous to believe that FB actually make any money of Myanmar. They make money from serving ads to the developed world, not poor developing countries.

bertil 6y ago

No, that’s a lie. The local junta used Facebook like they would have used any convenient mode of communication. Facebook wasn’t able to detect it because of a complex issue involving automated translation of non-Ascii languages. They were concerning reports and the relevant team reached out to their contact in the country, the wife of a senior executive and _a Nobel prize recipient_ who both personally denied that anything wrong was happening. The company scrambled to get more context but didn’t have translators willing to tell them the truth because… well there’s an uncomfortable correlation between people speaking Burmese and people who thing Rohingya deserve respect. As soon as the reality was clear, the company acknowledged that they made a mistake in trusting local authorities, not investing more in non-standard software tools and piled on their investment on detecting such project. You can compare that to how much Toyota cares about their logo being at the back on the technical on every photo featuring genocidal warlords and terrorist groups.

mike00632 6y ago
You're making excuses. Facebook didn't hire translators even though they were profiting off the genocide. They didn't cut off services. It wasn't just the military but nationalist Buddhists were outing their neighbors, doxxing them as Rohingya, condemning them to death via Facebook. And for you to suggest that Facebook shouldn't be held responsible for their actions because other tech companies would do the same, is lazy and dishonest. The fact is that the genocide was lead by Facebook, not some other tech company, and I will keep reminding people of this event every time some apologist tries to ignore what happened.