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Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

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Re: Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

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Post by statguy »

For overall context, the current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful protests and turning a blind eye to fireband Hindu leaders openly calling for genocide against Muslims.

https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/beyond-blasphemy-in...

https://www.boomlive.in/news/hindu-rashtra-convention-bengal...

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/india...

https://article-14.com/post/jailed-or-punished-with-or-witho...

Re: Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

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Post by statguy »

arcen wrote: post #17
AndyMcConachie wrote: post #11

I guess America cares about India's human rights record now that India is trading with Russia and doesn't back Ukraine unconditionally. You coud totally see this coming once India started trading with Russia. The Indian government, and especially the current government, has been treating muslims terribly for years. But the American establishment didn't have a problem with it until India declared they wouldn't go alon…

What do you mean treating muslims terribly?

The current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful protests and turning a blind eye to fireband Hindu leaders openly calling for genocide against Muslims.

https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/beyond-blasphemy-in...

https://www.boomlive.in/news/hindu-rashtra-convention-bengal...

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/india...

https://article-14.com/post/jailed-or-punished-with-or-witho...

Re: Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

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Post by yiamvino »

tsimionescu wrote: post #16
oneoff786 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So… you’re in favor of providing a platform to call for violence against ethnic minorities?

Isn't that the US free speech ideal? Didn't the ACLU use to defend the right of KKK members to hold rallies for exactly this ideal?

let me understand this right holding rallies / calling violence are synonyms to one another all comes under free speech ?

Re: Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

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Post by angelbar »

tsimionescu wrote: post #16
oneoff786 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So… you’re in favor of providing a platform to call for violence against ethnic minorities?

Isn't that the US free speech ideal? Didn't the ACLU use to defend the right of KKK members to hold rallies for exactly this ideal?

Facebook is a private communication party.... they can be screaming their lungs out on the streets, if their goverments allow it.

Re: Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

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Post by hackerlight »

hunglee2 wrote: post #25

Is it Facebook's role to monitor a country's human rights record? I'd be all for it, if that were the case, and it the criteria for human rights transgressions were universally applied.

Nobody is saying that. They just don't want Facebook to play an active role in making things worse.

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RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #3

> Ankhi Das, Facebook’s most senior executive in India, resigned in October 2020 after the Wall Street Journal reported she had intervened to prevent the platform removing accounts of members of the country’s Hindu nationalist ruling party, some of whom had called for violence against India’s Muslim minority. I am not sure it is Facebook’s place to be policing members of the government of the largest democracy in the…

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Post by hackerlight »

AndyMcConachie wrote: post #11

I guess America cares about India's human rights record now that India is trading with Russia and doesn't back Ukraine unconditionally. You coud totally see this coming once India started trading with Russia. The Indian government, and especially the current government, has been treating muslims terribly for years. But the American establishment didn't have a problem with it until India declared they wouldn't go alon…

This was actively discussed in the US prior to March 2022, so I don't understand how you can hold that belief.

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Post by soamv »

hunglee2 wrote: post #25

Is it Facebook's role to monitor a country's human rights record? I'd be all for it, if that were the case, and it the criteria for human rights transgressions were universally applied.

As the opening sentence of the article says, the report under discussion is specifically about Facebook's impact:

> Meta has been accused of “whitewashing” a long-awaited report on its human rights impact in India

Re: Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

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Post by throwaway_1928 »

statguy wrote: post #21

For overall context, the current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful protests and turning a blind eye to fireband Hindu leaders openly calling for genocide against Muslims. https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/beyond-blasphemy-in... https://www…

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