Ukraine Asks Zuckerberg to Discipline Kremlin Facebook Bots

mi writes "Ukrainian media is reporting (link in Ukrainian), that Facebook is getting increasingly heavy-handed blocking Ukrainian bloggers. The likely explanation for the observed phenomenon is that Facebook's Ukrainian office is located in Russia and is headed by a Russian citizen (Catherine Skorobogatov). For example, a post calling on Russian mothers to not let their sons go to war was blocked "Due to multiple complaints". Fed up, Ukrainian users are writing directly to Zukerberg to ask him to replace Catherine with someone, who would not be quite as swayed by the "complaints" generated by Russian bots.

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Re:Rules of war

[Archtech]

As Ukraine is under military assault by Russia at the moment, they should abandon any complaint monitoring for the time being.

That turns out not to be the case. The Ukrainian army - which is rapidly running out of effectives who are willing to lay down their lives for billionaire Nazi oligarchs - has been severely mauled by the militias formed to defend the area around Donetsk and Lugansk. As Americans would form militias to fight for their homes if an army trundled into their state and began bombarding city centres.

It has often been mentioned that most (if not all) of the equipment is Russian. Doh... all the ex-Soviet republics had large amounts of Soviet (i.e. Russian) weapons, vehicles and aircraft. The Ukrainian armed forces use them exclusively - and the militia have some (more every day) that they grabbed from local arsenals, or acquired after the Ukrainian troops ran away, surrendered, or went for a brief holiday in Russia.

Now some of the militiamen may have been trained in Russia, or by Russians. Thanks goodness the USA never trains armed rebels in nations like Afghanistan, Syria, Libya... or gives them sophisticated military equipment and training. The difference is that the militias in Ukraine are defending their homes, families and friends against unprovoked attacks by full-scale military forces. They talk Russian because, to all intents and purposes, they ARE Russian - like almost everyone in Crimea.