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Genocides?

• bagels 4y ago
  www.washingtonpost.com Facebook sued by Rohingya refugees for role in alleged Myanmar genocide
• camillomiller 4y ago
  Yes genocides. Facebook played a pivotal role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. They even admitted to that, but nobody gives a flying f.
  • eru 4y ago
    Snail mail played a vital role in the administrations of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Is that different or comparable?
    • analognoise 4y ago
      No that's different. What would be closer was IBM working with the Nazis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
    • Barrin92 4y ago
      It's different because nobody is in charge of snail mail which is merely a technology. Internet platforms have designs, incentives and people in charge for each aspect of their operation. They can chose what to amplify or not. It's been a convenient excuse of internet platforms to characterize themselves as generic technologies that nobody is responsible for or has ownership of, which isn't true. The equivalent to snail mail is something like https, smtp or ssl, not FB.
      • eru 4y ago
        Snail mail is offered by specific companies or organisations. Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Commissariat_for_Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Commissariat_for_Co...
• mhoad 4y ago
  1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb... 2. https://www.cfr.org/blog/facebooks-content-moderation-failures-ethiopia https://www.cfr.org/blog/facebooks-content-moderation-failur... 3. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039