Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

Post by pmontra » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 10:52 PM UTC

throwaway613834 wrote: post #58

wolco wrote: post #39

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Violence? Drag his body down the street? Attacking innocent people until everyone does what you say? Those groups get labelled terrorist. That is the difference between a first world country and a second or third. Some people may hate trump but they also know in a few years people will have the option of voting for someone else. When you change leaders by dragging them down a street you get the types of leaders who w…

> Violence? [...] That is the difference between a first world country and a second or third. "Third-world" doesn't mean what you think it means. Switzerland is a third-world country.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 10:53 PM UTC

logiclion wrote: post #44

mschuster91 wrote: post #29

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> But that's no justification for putting on masks and beating up random people. Nor is it an excuse for encouraging others to do the same. The problem is, until those in powers are not afraid that their bodies will literally be dragged through the streets, they have no incentive to not do anything they need to stay in power. And the more authoritarian the rule of those in power is, the greater the desire of those no…

Sure, hate the rich, it doesn't prove you have compassion for the poor. What you are stating as a threat is really the 'protection' of private property. Something that a poor person has access to as well, and in fact the utilization of such could allow them to come out of poverty. As far as your remarks on power, I hope you also understand it isn't a replacement for a hierarchy built on competence. Something that the…

Post by throwaway613834 » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 10:54 PM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #81

throwaway613834 wrote: post #58

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> Violence? [...] That is the difference between a first world country and a second or third. "Third-world" doesn't mean what you think it means. Switzerland is a third-world country.

I upvoted you for historical merit but the meaning of words change. Third world means poor countries now.

Post by norswap » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 10:57 PM UTC

aaron-lebo wrote: post #27

rdtsc wrote: post #5

I was joking before and said that it is inevitable that Facebook, Google and Twitter will eventually sell SaaS (Silencing as a Service). But maybe it wasn't a joke after all... It is simply too tempting to not do it. They have information which the Stasis and KGBs of the past would kill for. One thing Romanian government should be careful with is not listening to protesters. That is at least one country where they ha…

Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens. Government should be afraid of the people. Those groups cannot begin to challenge the government with violence. What you are suggesting is much more likely to end up in an orgy of bloo…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 27, 2017, 10:58 PM UTC

eecc wrote: post #52

wolco wrote: post #39

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Violence? Drag his body down the street? Attacking innocent people until everyone does what you say? Those groups get labelled terrorist. That is the difference between a first world country and a second or third. Some people may hate trump but they also know in a few years people will have the option of voting for someone else. When you change leaders by dragging them down a street you get the types of leaders who w…

Nope, the difference between first, second and third world is whether a country aligns to the USA block, the USSR bloc or remain unaligned and pretend to stay out of the Cold War stand-off. That Third World Non-aligned countries tended to be piss-poor, plundered failed states, and theaters for proxy wars between USA and USSR helped the confusion that the classification is of economic development. It’s not