Re:An Independent Assessment of the Human Rights Impact of F...
by makomk on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:10AM
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The underlying logic of the reporting blaming Facebook for the Rohingya genocide is that Facebook somehow has more power than a totalitarian, genocidal military dictatorship. Given that assumption it's hard to see why we shouldn't also treat any restrictions they place on speech in the same way as we would a totalitarian government.
Re:An Independent Assessment of the Human Rights Impact of F...
by tareqak on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:58AM
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I disagree. I think the underlying logic of the reporting blaming Facebook is that it was used as a tool to foment hatred against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. Both the statements “The Myanmar government is waging genocide against the Rohingya minority” and “Facebook doesn’t have a complete grasp of what its platform is being used to accomplish” can be true.
This is nothing like a government ordering the imprisonment of a section of its populace.