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Wow, what a headline, "can someone please think of the children?" and "we must protect our democracy!" combined into one. Well, I guess it's a good tactics to s

Wow, what a headline, "can someone please think of the children?" and "we must protect our democracy!" combined into one. Well, I guess it's a good tactics to say something like that to the Congress to kinda force them to do something.

hunterb123 5y ago
Should have heard the "whistleblower" on 60 minutes. Facebook is causing ethnic cleansing she said, lol. I didn't realize Facebook was so popular in China, that's the only place I know of ethnic cleansing being carried out. This is clearly orchestrated to get FB to censor more. Twitter has already fallen in line completely, that's why they are off the radar even though they are 1000% more toxic and teenagers are more likely to be on Twitter than FB nowadays.
- Broken_Hippo 5y ago
  So, you missed the news about Myanmar? Or the stories about the First Nation children being found in graves outside of schools (and this is recent, not something from 100 years ago)? Or children being taken from their parents at the US border and 'losing' the records in order to reunite them? I'm sure there are more, but these were the examples I could think of from the top of my head.
  - hunterb123 5y ago
    FB is not the cause of the issues though, and they could simply shut it down in that region but are other social media companies operating there? Do we have the same outrage with the Taliban and other terrorists using Twitter? Yes, terrorists and failed states shouldn't be allowed to use these services, let's not muddy that with censorship issues though. Let's ban the terrorists, not content from Americans.
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y ago
  Wasn’t the genocide in Myanmar primarily spread and encouraged on Facebook?
- blackbrokkoli 5y ago
  Sorry, you are very underinformed in this case. Sudan and South Sudan, Myanmar, Iraq and Central African Republic, just to name ongoing cleanings classified as actual genocides. Surprisingly, the continuously peddled "Yellow Danger" is not a good lens to get accurate information about the world...
- brendoelfrendo 5y ago
  She was probably talking about the cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar, where their military did use Facebook as a propaganda tool. Facebook is dominant in Myanmar and almost synonymous with the internet there. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
ReptileMan 5y ago
Throw in terrorism and you got bingo.
spicybright 5y ago
Whether or not one agrees with articles like these, I always give it extra scrutiny if any of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse are mentioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
eatYourFood 5y ago
If there is a real issue with protecting children do you still get to say "think of the children!"?
- kelseyfrog 5y ago
  No, the children will be commodified.

hunterb123 5y ago

Should have heard the "whistleblower" on 60 minutes. Facebook is causing ethnic cleansing she said, lol. I didn't realize Facebook was so popular in China, that's the only place I know of ethnic cleansing being carried out. This is clearly orchestrated to get FB to censor more. Twitter has already fallen in line completely, that's why they are off the radar even though they are 1000% more toxic and teenagers are more likely to be on Twitter than FB nowadays.

Broken_Hippo 5y ago
So, you missed the news about Myanmar? Or the stories about the First Nation children being found in graves outside of schools (and this is recent, not something from 100 years ago)? Or children being taken from their parents at the US border and 'losing' the records in order to reunite them? I'm sure there are more, but these were the examples I could think of from the top of my head.
- hunterb123 5y ago
  FB is not the cause of the issues though, and they could simply shut it down in that region but are other social media companies operating there? Do we have the same outrage with the Taliban and other terrorists using Twitter? Yes, terrorists and failed states shouldn't be allowed to use these services, let's not muddy that with censorship issues though. Let's ban the terrorists, not content from Americans.
SamoyedFurFluff 5y ago
Wasn’t the genocide in Myanmar primarily spread and encouraged on Facebook?
blackbrokkoli 5y ago
Sorry, you are very underinformed in this case. Sudan and South Sudan, Myanmar, Iraq and Central African Republic, just to name ongoing cleanings classified as actual genocides. Surprisingly, the continuously peddled "Yellow Danger" is not a good lens to get accurate information about the world...
brendoelfrendo 5y ago
She was probably talking about the cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar, where their military did use Facebook as a propaganda tool. Facebook is dominant in Myanmar and almost synonymous with the internet there. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

ReptileMan 5y ago

Throw in terrorism and you got bingo.

spicybright 5y ago

Whether or not one agrees with articles like these, I always give it extra scrutiny if any of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse are mentioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

eatYourFood 5y ago

If there is a real issue with protecting children do you still get to say "think of the children!"?

kelseyfrog 5y ago
No, the children will be commodified.