Re:We Can't Just Assume that Facebook Will Do Its Best
by HarryHirsch on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:44AM
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When your actions have an impact on the world it's meaningless to make a distinction between negligence and criminal intent. The victims of the Whatsapp riots in India or of the Facebook-driven pogroms in Myanmar don't care if Facebook was the actor or the enabler. These people are dead, they don't have the luxury of caring.
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Re:We Can't Just Assume that Facebook Will Do Its Best
by abapologist on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:32PM
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This argument would call for an end to the distinction between manslaughter and honicide, as an example.
It’s a great example of why we don’t allow victims, or relatives of victims, to or Jesus their own justice. Because they don’t care about distinctions that we, as a society, have decided are important.
Re:We Can't Just Assume that Facebook Will Do Its Best
by gotocake on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:27PM
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This argument would call for an end to the distinction between manslaughter and honicide, as an example.
Corporations should probably not enjoy that distinction in the same way that people do. The sooner we dispense with the harmful fiction of corporate personhood the better. Either way, let’s not conflate people and the law, with corporations and the law.