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fluoridation 1y ago
Why are you dancing around the issue instead of answering the question? What was the point of making that comment? "Giving a history lesson" is simply bullshit. If you want to say that you're pro-censorship then just say it.
- Fricken 1y ago
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  - fluoridation 1y ago
    If the price of free speech is that racists have free speech, then I'm willing to pay it.
    - Fricken 1y ago
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      - fluoridation 1y ago
        Interesting. So do you think if Facebook hadn't existed the obvious racial tensions also wouldn't have existed?
        Fricken 1y ago
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        fluoridation 1y ago
        Not to the point of one group wanting to enact genocide on another, so that's completely irrelevant, and you know it. If Facebook hadn't existed, would the genocide still have happened? Since you seem to be in a deflecting mood, I'm going to answer for you: yes. If you have one group that hates another, removing a technological means of communication solves nothing.
        Fricken 1y ago
        The Rohingya claim they've been living in the region for over a millenium, and presumably they were able to go the whole way without getting genocided, up until Facebook arrived, that is. >For years, Facebook, now called Meta Platforms Inc., pushed the narrative that it was a neutral platform in Myanmar that was misused by malicious people, and that despite its efforts to remove violent and hateful material, it unfortunately fell short. That narrative echoes its response to the role it has played in other conflicts around the world, whether the 2020 election in the U.S. or hate speech in India. But a new and comprehensive report by Amnesty International states that Facebook’s preferred narrative is false. The platform, Amnesty says, wasn’t merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation. Instead, Meta’s algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya beginning as early as 2012. Despite years of warnings, Amnesty found, the company not only failed to remove violent hate speech and disinformation against the Rohingya, it actively spread and amplified it until it culminated in the 2017 massacre. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-facebook-amplified-hate-ahead-of-rohingya-massacre-in-myanmar https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face... Here's the report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/
        fluoridation 1y ago
        None of that refutes what I said.
abdullahkhalids 1y ago
While I sympathize with your viewpoint, your language is far outside HN's guidelines and I am going to flag your comment.
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tomhow 1y ago
> Do you have anything to say or did god put you here to be a dink? You can't comment like this on HN, no matter how right you are or feel you are. The comment would have been fine without that line. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173338 and marked it off topic.

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Why are you dancing around the issue instead of answering the question? What was the point of making that comment? "Giving a history lesson" is simply bullshit. If you want to say that you're pro-censorship then just say it.

Fricken 1y ago
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- fluoridation 1y ago
  If the price of free speech is that racists have free speech, then I'm willing to pay it.
  - Fricken 1y ago
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    - fluoridation 1y ago
      Interesting. So do you think if Facebook hadn't existed the obvious racial tensions also wouldn't have existed?
      - Fricken 1y ago
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        fluoridation 1y ago
        Not to the point of one group wanting to enact genocide on another, so that's completely irrelevant, and you know it. If Facebook hadn't existed, would the genocide still have happened? Since you seem to be in a deflecting mood, I'm going to answer for you: yes. If you have one group that hates another, removing a technological means of communication solves nothing.
        Fricken 1y ago
        The Rohingya claim they've been living in the region for over a millenium, and presumably they were able to go the whole way without getting genocided, up until Facebook arrived, that is. >For years, Facebook, now called Meta Platforms Inc., pushed the narrative that it was a neutral platform in Myanmar that was misused by malicious people, and that despite its efforts to remove violent and hateful material, it unfortunately fell short. That narrative echoes its response to the role it has played in other conflicts around the world, whether the 2020 election in the U.S. or hate speech in India. But a new and comprehensive report by Amnesty International states that Facebook’s preferred narrative is false. The platform, Amnesty says, wasn’t merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation. Instead, Meta’s algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya beginning as early as 2012. Despite years of warnings, Amnesty found, the company not only failed to remove violent hate speech and disinformation against the Rohingya, it actively spread and amplified it until it culminated in the 2017 massacre. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-facebook-amplified-hate-ahead-of-rohingya-massacre-in-myanmar https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face... Here's the report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/
        fluoridation 1y ago
        None of that refutes what I said.

abdullahkhalids 1y ago

While I sympathize with your viewpoint, your language is far outside HN's guidelines and I am going to flag your comment.

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tomhow 1y ago

> Do you have anything to say or did god put you here to be a dink? You can't comment like this on HN, no matter how right you are or feel you are. The comment would have been fine without that line. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173338 and marked it off topic.