Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]
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Re: Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]
#2Good.
Facebook is the global scale, slow motion online equivalent of the Fyre Festival.
Re: Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]
#3This seems kind of silly. Should radio equipment manufacturers be liable for the Rwandan genocide? I'm not fan of Facebook (I don't even have an account) but requiring them to fulfill a function that the Burmese government didn't do seems shortsighted.
Re: Class-action suit filed against Meta for facilitating Rohingya Genocide [pdf]
#4Starting to wonder if the name became "Meta" so that the headlines wouldn't read "Class action suit filed against Facebook" or "Scandal involving Facebook".
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#5The Western world needs to resume to exert power, or let its inability to do so be seen as a weakness, a weakness which will invite further trouble.
Burmese regime is one of world's most unruly, despotic, prolific, and it can be wiped out clean by US military with ease, without involving any of its allies. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/military-rape-12032...
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#6This seems kind of silly. Should radio equipment manufacturers be liable for the Rwandan genocide? I'm not fan of Facebook (I don't even have an account) but requiring them to fulfill a function that the Burmese government didn't do seems shortsighted.
If radio equipment manufacturers built their business on choosing which messages to promote would it change things?
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#7This seems kind of silly. Should radio equipment manufacturers be liable for the Rwandan genocide? I'm not fan of Facebook (I don't even have an account) but requiring them to fulfill a function that the Burmese government didn't do seems shortsighted.
Radio equipment manufacturers don't specifically amplify messages that incite outrage, and also don't perform mass psychological experiments on their users [1].
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...
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#8This seems kind of silly. Should radio equipment manufacturers be liable for the Rwandan genocide? I'm not fan of Facebook (I don't even have an account) but requiring them to fulfill a function that the Burmese government didn't do seems shortsighted.
If they can not fulfill that, then they should offer their service in such countries, or at the very least stop doing it once they became aware of the issue.
Facebook's scale comes with responsibility.
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#9This seems kind of silly. Should radio equipment manufacturers be liable for the Rwandan genocide? I'm not fan of Facebook (I don't even have an account) but requiring them to fulfill a function that the Burmese government didn't do seems shortsighted.
Yeah but Facebook is eager to take on the moderator role. They would have been much smarter to, like a radio provider or telco say: "we are just the pipeline, we are happy to follow all court orders but we aren't moderating past that", but now that they have actively embraced these kind of moderator roles they've lost the ability to make that claim.
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#10Starting to wonder if the name became "Meta" so that the headlines wouldn't read "Class action suit filed against Facebook" or "Scandal involving Facebook".
There used to be some telecom company in my country, who had some TV personality in all of their TV ads. Then, one day he wasn't in the ads anymore. It had been said that they stopped putting him in the ads, because the audience tends to associate negative emotions with a person more easily than with abstract concepts.
Perhaps something similar is going on with some of these tech companies, where they use some really abstract name to which it's hard to attach negative emotions to.