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Pardon me, but isn't that exactly what they're doing? > "As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of politi
by monklu 5y ago
Pardon me, but isn't that exactly what they're doing?
> "As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders.' We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
- zozbot234 5y ago"Death to the Russian invaders" is nationalistic propaganda of the sort that Putin likes to point to when he calls Ukrainians "nazis". It's not a sensible call to engage in self-defense. For one thing, it does not properly distinguish between ordinary Russians, of whom there are plenty in Ukraine (Russian even used to be an official language before the Ukraine government removed it as retaliation against the Crimea referendum) and the Russian military involved in the "operation".
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoHeh wait until Putin finds out the Gondorians- uhh Ukrainians- think they are orcs.
- iso1631 5y agoAre ordinary Russians invaders?
- zozbot234 5y agoDo we really want to ask that question? We might not like the answer that some Ukrainians may give. Facebook was saying that "calls for violence on Russians" are okay given the context, full stop, then they clumsily backpedaled on the civilians issue and then only for threats they arbitrarily judge as "credible", which tells you how ridiculous the back-pedaling was. This is not going well for them.
- 8note 5y agoWhich country are the Russians in question citizens of?
- trasz 5y agoOrdinary Russians are either invaders, or an unavoidable collateral damage - sad, but justified.
- monklu 5y agoYou're desperately looking for a ground to stand on that simply do not exist -- please explain how Ukraine can "self-defend" and "stand their ground" without "death to the Russian invaders"?
- kordlessagain 5y ago> it does not properly distinguish between ordinary Russians, > "Death to the Russian invaders" "Invaders" is the properly distinguishing keyword here. So, that makes your comment conflicted. That doesn't negate the fact a non-corporal entity is making big decisions for groups of people, while also holding their shareholder's value (another group of people) in mind. One way to break conflicted or dissonant views is to ask direct questions about the conflicted statements. Where others have done that, you appear to have evaded answering the question. > Do we really need to ask that question? Yes, we really do!
- moltke 5y agoWhen do we get to say "death to Mexican gangsters?"
- kordlessagain 5y agoYou don't. Invaders implies armed occupying forces causing harm. "Invaders" is a more clear identifier than "gangster", given some gangsters may only sell drugs, not carry guns or use them to inflict direct harm. Of course one could argue selling drugs is causing harm, but choice of ingestion of the drug is a distinct and challenging topic in and of its own. Also, the two can't be conflated (well) and the origin of the story was Facebook doing X, where X isn't equal to drugs. I'm also thinking that enforcement against selling drugs is a governmental view, not a societal view. So, a group representing the larger group thinks "drugs are bad", whereas the larger group doesn't hold that consensus based view. It's the group speaking for the larger group holding that view. In the case of Facebook's action, Facebook is deciding whether or not the larger group can use certain terminology, or not. Facebook is not deciding whether to address the "occupying forces" themselves, through direct action, like a government would do for the larger group. Maybe Facebook is like a bunch of Mexican gangsters, though!
- moltke 5y ago>armed occupying forces causing harm. I don't see how that definition is incompatible with what many of the gangs are doing to southern Texas and California.