The trend will continue as long as the 0 accountability standard remains.
For Facebook or the Israeli state?
Both?
Facebook apologizes after wrong translation sees Palestinian man arrested
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#42I'm not exactly a Facebook fan but the blame for this needs to be shared by the Israeli police.
Blame should rest mostly on the police.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, seeing as there are no vowels in Arabic, the equivalent is not an English word with vowels, with the vowels removed. It is a shortened form though, and is equivalent to "Morning!"
Arabic text has much higher entropy than English. The last two letters in the Arabic word he used (H M) is also the common suffix for "them". That's not strictly equivalent to simply "Morning!" in English. Maybe the translation algorithm confused "Yisbah-hum" (good morning) with "Yitbah-hum" (Kill them)?
Thank you! all this reading, including the source article, and finally someone gives a likely source for the mistake.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what country can you never be arrested for a Facebook post?
In the US which has freedom of speech laws. But which country has arrested users for Facebook posts other than authoritarian countries? Particularly for such a relatively innocuous post.
People have been arrested over facebook in the US, for example:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/facebook-com... http://www.businessinsider.com/people-arrested-for-facebook-...
AFAIK most of the countries have had arrestations over facebook posts, those who have not are following this global trend.
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#45This is scary and 1984 ish. A man was arrested because of a bad translation.
Collateral damage. People are routinely murdered for being in the same area as people who are suspected of terrorism on the basis of evidence which has never seen a courtroom.
One post could be a mistake, but two posts like this is not an accident.
This is not the right forum for you to start attacking Israel about everything and anything.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what country can you never be arrested for a Facebook post?
In the US which has freedom of speech laws. But which country has arrested users for Facebook posts other than authoritarian countries? Particularly for such a relatively innocuous post.
People have been arrested in the US for social media posts. And well before the internet, for things they've said or written.
Also, generally, the bar for "arrested" is pretty low. Cops can arrest you with very little fear of reprisal.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what country can you never be arrested for a Facebook post?
In the US which has freedom of speech laws. But which country has arrested users for Facebook posts other than authoritarian countries? Particularly for such a relatively innocuous post.
Threats or rather what the police considers threats gets people arrested in the US.
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#50This headline got a chuckle out of me, not gonna lie.
Because you don't see any situation where you are unnecessarily harassed and could face arrest or death from a poor interaction with the police.
Translation: don't have a dark sense of humor about things.
It's not because I lack empathy, you dolt. Obviously everyone of us is far removed from that risk. It just reads like something that could have been an Onion article: ridiculous and exasperating. Enjoy being a stiff, and go fuck yourself.