If an entire village is razed to the ground then whatever led up to that is wrong, period. What people get backwards is thinking that if the actions that led up to the razing were themselves not ethically problematic, then the result has no bearing on whether or not we should continue allowing said actions.
Then there's the fact that actual FB employee's have gone on record that FB is making things worse in Ethiopia. Or aren't we allowed to take that into account when condemning FB?
Discounting this as being simply "he said/she said" is itself ethically dubious.
This is where we fundamentally disagree then. I think perfectly innocent things can contribute to deadly consequences.
For instance, Timothy McVeigh rented a moving truck and filled it with fertilizer to blow up Oklahoma City. But I don't think renting moving trucks or buying farming essentials are morally wrong.
I also don't think that posting on Facebook or Facebook algorithmically promoting posts that gain traction is wrong.
Like I said in my original comment, the worst thing you can say about Facebook here is that they're not picking sides in a messy ethnic conflict happening in a foreign country.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Oh how dare I, my days of making points are certainly coming to a middle...
I don't think i'm the one making the false equivalency here.
"If an entire village is razed to the ground then whatever led up to that is wrong, period"
People shot guns while hunting all the time, therefore the actions of Cheney that led up to him shooting his friend are both acceptable, things we should continue doing, and should under no circumstances be expected to change in future hunts.
^ Because you see ... it doesn't matter that other people have successfully gone hunting and shot guns in the past, what matters are the specific circumstances that led to Cheney shooting another human being.
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What happens is that people like you want to point to the firing of the gun and argue that firing guns is legal therefore Cheney did nothing wrong.
Everyone understand the flaw in that logic, I don't even have to explain it.
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FB did nothing wrong everyone! FB is just displaying text on a webpage, something people do all the time!
Facebook doesn't have a set of approved guidelines on what news Ethiopian media can report about their own domestic conflict. The article doesn't share the content of the post in question, so it's impossible to tell, but they don't say that it violated Facebook's general community guidelines in regards to hatespeech or provoking violence. The article just states an opinion of one person that the local media created a post blaming the wrong group.
I don't see how facebook can judge whether that news report is right or wrong. It's just he said/she said.