What I mean is that the service provided by Facebook is somewhat trivial - it can easily be replaced by emails, chats, or any of the countless ways to communicate via the internet. Shutting down Facebook will not solve the problems in Myanmar.
I think the only solution to this problem is education.
Facebook isn’t concerned about being “blamed for censorship” when it benefits their bottom line [1].
> This is a difficult problem to solve
The first step is recognising that ad-driven reaction-oriented social media does not appear to positively self-correct.
[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-ce...
The tendency of the news feed to promote attention grabbing content biases it to extremes, and this is definitely a systemic problem, and shouldn't be ignored and swept under the rug.
This is a cop-out. Hateful false information, with violent consequences, is being spread by a company profiting from its distribution.
We don’t say, in the event of food poisoning, “we can’t blame the restaurant because if they weren’t here someone else would be poisoning people.” We fine the business and send a message to the industry that said behaviour is unacceptable.
Facebook is contributing to and profiting from atrocities. That rightfully merits scrutiny, of Facebook and ad-driven social media companies generally.