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I just want to remind you that of the three people listed only Mark took actions that exacerbated a genocide (Rohingya in Myanmar).
by iaw 3y ago
I just want to remind you that of the three people listed only Mark took actions that exacerbated a genocide (Rohingya in Myanmar).
- velp 3y agoAnd Elon's lithium mines aren't similar? Or Kanye's open support of rhetoric linked to the Holocaust?
- aprdm 3y agoMusk melding on turkey elections and other countries isn’t too far off
- bgun 3y agoThis is an unfair take. Whatever you think of Meta as a corporation or Zuckerberg as a person, neither caused the Rohingya crisis, much less the conflict; and while it's fair to argue that FB/Meta could have done more to stem hate speech on the platform, your phrasing intentionally villainizes a single individual for an entire ongoing, complex sociopolitical situation.
- iaw 3y agoI have intimate knowledge of FB during that period. Any voice of concern about abuses of the service were repressed as a "we'll deal with that when it's a problem." Concerns about lack of global moderation and enforcement were well known before the massacre. Mark and leadership made a choice akin to what the major oil producers did regarding global warming: kick the can until it's a problem.