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- "if you can’t staff the process then you (and therefore nobody) should be working at this scale" Wouldn't the direct alternative be a localized advertising b
by perihelions 5y ago
- "if you can’t staff the process then you (and therefore nobody) should be working at this scale"
Wouldn't the direct alternative be a localized advertising business based in Myanmar? That would seem to be much worse, since the leadership would then be people who likely condone genocide (and are out of reach of Western laws/norms).
(We're a bit too implicit about the fact that Silicon Valley corporations are American corporations, global projections of American power. If we neutralize them, we lose some things we haven't examined carefully).
- elliekelly 5y agoI don’t think this is an “us” vs “them” thing so much as a “person” vs “automated process” thing.
- _lqaf 5y agoI'm trying to understand: you would prefer that Facebook be complicit and turning a profit on genocide than not taking part?
- perihelions 5y agoI don't understand the ground truth well enough to say, and I'm not going to be flippant in guessing. It *does* look double-edged to me: if you pull Western social media out of places like Myanmar, their replacements could be more destructive things. Their reliance on Western social media, for now, gives the West additional influence and levers in that country. I do agree Meta is using that influence badly, that their algorithms seem to be amplifying calls to violence rather than countering them.
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