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Re:Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes by crazygringo on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:11PM (#24603419)
I mean, the fact that they happened.

The existence of the war crime allegations isn't being removed.

People horrified by the war crimes themselves provide the incentive/pressure. Photos/videos don't add to it, they just confirm the evidence.

I really don't think any victims' families are saying "oh well, because we can't see the videos anymore I guess we won't bother the government after all".

Re:Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes by sneak on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:28PM (#24604004)
The fact that crimes happened is not pressure upon governments to act upon them, no.

Governments generally only respond to public pressure or existential threats to their power and control and revenue, and little else.

Re:Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes by xkcd-sucks on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:12PM (#24603655)
> The existence of the war crime allegations isn't being removed.

Oh, but it is. The direct witnesses' accounts are minimized and ridiculed for lack of evidence, then the witnesses stop talking about it (normal ones; the crazy ones keep ranting about it forever) and the matter is totally gone within a generation. A historian might dig it up a few decades later to make a career and by that time it's too old to be relevant.

Consider these major events before they were part of accepted reality: NSA spying, coronavirus, the Holocaust, Uighur ethnic cleansing, Tuskegee syphilis experiments, etc.