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posted by mrpg on Monday April 09 2018, @04:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the people-kill-people dept.

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As tens of millions of Americans come to grips with revelations that data from Facebook may have been used to sway the 2016 presidential election, on the other side of the world, rights groups say hatemongers have taken advantage of the social network to widely disseminate inflammatory, anti-Muslim speech in Myanmar.

The rhetoric is aimed almost exclusively at the disenfranchised Rohingya Muslim minority, a group which has been the target of a sustained campaign of violence and abuse by the Myanmar military, which claims it is targeting terrorists.

Human rights activists inside the country and out tell CNN that posts range from recirculated news articles from pro-government outlets, to misrepresented or faked photos and anti-Rohingya cartoons.

[...] Zuckerberg told Vox hate speech is "a real issue, and we want to make sure that all of the tools that we're bringing to bear on eliminating hate speech, inciting violence, and basically protecting the integrity of civil discussions that we're doing in places like Myanmar, as well as places like the US that do get a disproportionate amount of the attention."

Source: When Facebook becomes 'the beast': Myanmar activists say social media aids genocide


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:10PM (#664574)

    It's a coordinated attack on free speech online. They attack the platform, but they're really attacking free speech. The platform can be co-opted by the ruling class. (As if it weren't already; this is Failbook after all. Dumb fucks.)

    Snailmail can be used to organize the same things Failbook can be used to organize, but snailmail isn't searchable like Failbook posts. Snailmail also doesn't make you aware of similar communications that friends of friends of friends are involved in. Failbook is making to too easy for the working class and masses to coordinate.

    wswswswswswswsws has had continuing coverage of various strikes, many going against the union who is supposed to have a monopoly on representation of the working class, among teachers and in a few other sectors like emergency services in Germany and UAW in the USA. Right now I see wswswswsws' theory of why Failbook is being called on the carpet as the most credible.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by arslan on Monday April 09 2018, @10:51PM

    by arslan (3462) on Monday April 09 2018, @10:51PM (#664726)

    Yup. Seems like it to me. Failbook has its flaws with its evil leader making his bed of cash selling people's data they get for free however it is also a platform for free speech. Looks like the more insidious folks are using the former, with the current drama around data monetization, as smoke screen to also sucker punch for latter.

    Unfortunately, majority of folks tend to live in a binary world and react in a binary fashion, so they end up eating the sucker punch with a smile on their face. Ignorance is truly bliss.

  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:36PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:36PM (#664956) Homepage Journal

    It is right time to refresh a recent memory [wikipedia.org].