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Did accountants, engineers, and other staff, receive sentences for participation in other genocides? Serious question.
by tmp_anon_22 5y ago
Did accountants, engineers, and other staff, receive sentences for participation in other genocides? Serious question.
- augustuspolius 5y agoNot sure if a valid analogy, but don’t think engineers who designed and built autobahns or other infrastructure in Nazi Germany were held responsible for indirectly facilitating a genocide.
- paisawalla 5y agoSome journalists and announcers for Radio Télévision Libre des Milles-Collines were given sentences after the Rwandan genocide. (I am not saying Facebook's role is at all comparable to RTLMC's)
- dekhn 5y agoI have no idea. I believe in Nuremburg trials (an exceptional and extraordinary situation far behind what this case claims) most of the legal power was brought to bear on leaders although we often say "just following orders" is not an excuse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders). The people who created this case want to damage the leadership of the company (who set the primary policy decisions), not engineers or other staff, unless they could find that an engineer worked on their own (and documented in a discoverable way). Honestly, I don't think this case has even a remote chance of making it through the courts. The filer would have done far better to not ask for a enormous monetary sum (2X the GDP of myanmar).