Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)

Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by wolco5 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:23PM (#25737319)

Context matters.

"Let’s go and burn that police station down now"

If anyone I knew said that I would treat it as a dry joke.

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by mc32 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:04PM (#25738015)

I guess this is the problem in identifying “shooters”.

Lots of people kid around about horrible things but don’t mean it. One day you find out that one of the kids was not joking and actually meant it. Even people who are friends of the perp have problems sussing this out and can only do it in retrospect.

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by wolco5 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:29PM (#25738461)

What about songs like kill the police by ice tea. A direct call to action exists / police have been killed but he still is free to act in police dramas?

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by mc32 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:58PM (#25739025)

If we took “progressive” politics out of it but retained that we need to remove “violence” from discourse, yes they would have to be banned from Twitter.

Progressive politics will say we have to consider the background of the singer and the audience as mitigating circumstance so they might let it slide.

Objectively it would have to be banned if we use Twitter’s new rubric.

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by stretchcat on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:31PM (#25741118)

(fyi the song is Cop Killer by Ice-T.)

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