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Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

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Re: Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

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Post by dade_ »

thinkingemote wrote: post #4

Hate is hate. Morality is absolute, not relative.

Calls for violence and hate are different things. I don't hate Russians, but I support violence against their soldiers invading Ukraine.

Hating someone also doesn't mean they are worth the jail time from a violent act.

Re: Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

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Post by systemvoltage »

numeromancer wrote: post #6
thinkingemote wrote: post #4

Hate is hate. Morality is absolute, not relative.

"All hate is hate, but some hate is more hate than others." -- Hypocrite Valley

I would love to see a rise of alternative BigTech (FB, Google, Apple, Microsoft). Not the Parlor kind, but more leaning towards libertarian values and the foundational principles of the United States. Perhaps based in the East Coast: Philadelphia, Chicago or Boston.

Re: Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

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Post by paxys »

It's ridiculous to assume that "I hate my neighbor and am going to kill him" and "there's a Russian army invading my city, we should set up an ambush" should be held to the same standard of speech. Of course, a larger question is whether Facebook should be the arbiter for this in the first place, but then the content is posted on their own private platform, and unlike a lot of people here I still think they should have 100% control over what they allow and disallow vs the government dictating it.

Re: Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

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Post by rvz »

No matter how much you (as well as I) hate the fact that private platforms can impose or change their moderation rules unfairly on who ever they want, whenever they want and no matter how hypocritical they are, they are still private platforms and can do whatever they want even if it is against their own terms of service.

Ultimately, they don't care and they are on no-one's side. Thus, they will never change. Outrage sells more ads.

Re: Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

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Post by gusgus01 »

thinkingemote wrote: post #4

Hate is hate. Morality is absolute, not relative.

That's a hotly debated philosophical concept, moral absolutism and moral relativism and everything in between. I'd assume from your statement you're a moral absolutist, but that does not make that statement an absolute truth.
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