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"Amid this global movement to end anti-Blackness, we credit these companies for answering our call swiftly and taking a clear stand for what's right so we can hold Facebook accountable for its racist policies," said Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, which is one of the groups organizing the boycott.
Almost 100 firms have joined the boycott so far, Robinson said, adding: "Facebook has a decision to make: adopt a civil rights infrastructure or continue to see key advertisers dropping from its platform."
[...] Most recently, the tension between Facebook and the content its users share has come to a head due to messages posted by President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign in the past month, amid nationwide protests in support of Black communities and against police violence. Twitter in late May took action against a Trump tweet by appending a warning that it glorified violence against protesters, in contravention of the site's rules. Facebook, however, took no action against the same content, and the company took heat from both civil rights advocates and employees over that choice.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @07:57PM (10 children)
Not that long ago, "tolerance" was the buzzword. Then they realized they lived in glass houses.
I think racism will end when people stop setting themselves apart from mainstream society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @12:34AM (9 children)
> I think racism will end when people stop setting themselves apart from mainstream society.
I think racism will end when we are mostly mutts, enough mixing of different skin colors and it won't matter anymore.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @12:58AM (8 children)
Genetically engineered humans will put racism back on the plate. Or at least some kind of extreme genetic classism.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday June 28 2020, @01:02AM (7 children)
Shouldn't CRISPR fix that? If you're being discriminated against because you don't have the in-vogue genetic enhancements, now with CRISPR you don't need to have been born with those enhancements; you can just have them added later.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @01:16AM
I doubt it would be useful past very early development stages.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @02:37AM (4 children)
It's like turning a man into a trans woman. They still have the bone structure and other baggage. You need to edit at or before the embryo stage.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday June 28 2020, @05:29PM (3 children)
No, you don't (in theory). There's no reason genetic code changes and gene expression can't cause a biological organism to completely morph, with sufficient time of course. The cells in your body are constantly dying and being replaced, and that includes bone. The only reason this stuff doesn't work now is because we're genetically coded to age and not to change much after adulthood, because there were evolutionary advantages to this strategy, but with sufficiently-advanced medical and genetic technology, this can be overcome. It's not going to happen anytime soon of course, but physics don't prevent it. Even now, humans will regenerate lost bone and tissue, such as from a severed limb, the problem is just that for adults the growth rate is so slow that it's insignificant. And your body will also consume and reduce bone mass if you stop using your muscles (just ask astronauts). It's entirely possible to turn an existing human into a completely different human physically (e.g. 6'4" man into 5'0" woman or vice-versa) biologically, by "hacking" existing body processes, we just don't know how yet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @08:00PM (2 children)
You may get some good and useful results with gene therapy, but the most comprehensive results will be from editing as early as possible. If you try to edit a fully grown adult, surgery may be needed to make the body match the new genome. To avoid off-target errors associated with CRISPR or editing trillions of cells, the full genome should be synthesized from scratch and inserted into an embryo or synthetic embryo. That doesn't help people who are already alive and it introduces ethical issues, but parents would do it if it meant superior offspring. Another option for adults would be to create a new body and do a brain transplant into it.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday June 29 2020, @12:52AM (1 child)
I thought of that too, but they'll need some seriously exotic tech (nanotechnology?) to scan the exact configuration of nerve connections and recreate them. I expect the entire central nervous system differs from person to person, in which case it wouldn't just be a need to find the "right" nerve to connect up to each part of the brain, as the "right" nerve might not exist on the other body.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Monday June 29 2020, @01:06AM
We all know where this will lead [youtube.com].
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Vocal Minority on Sunday June 28 2020, @03:14AM
I'm not sure if I should mod you informative or funny...