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A Look at Facebook's Presence in Myanmar Where Despite Public Outcries, Facebook is Still Struggling To Contain Hate Speech (reuters.com)
More than 1,000 anti-Rohingya posts featuring calls for their murder among other hate speech were live on Facebook last week, Reuters reported Wednesday. A probe by the news agency indicates that the network is still being used to encourage violence against the Muslim group in Myanmar despite the tech firm promising to tackle the issue. Reuters reports some of the material had been online for six years. Facebook's rules prohibit "violent or dehumanizing" attacks on ethnic groups. However, the US-based firm mostly relies on users to flag related offending posts rather than hunting them out itself, in part because its software has not had enough training to reliably interpret Burmese text.
Vice reports that Facebook has hired an outside company to look into its role in spreading hate speech and enabling ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Vice reports that Facebook has hired an outside company to look into its role in spreading hate speech and enabling ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
If Facebook is basically fighting a flood with a broom then perhaps they should just not allow anyone in Myanmar to use Facebook for a while. Assuming, that is, that Facebook is actually serious about prohibiting "violent or dehumanizing" attacks on ethnic groups, as they say.
More than 1,000 anti whoever posts on Facebook in some shithole country!
This is mainly done through a secretive operation in Kuala Lumpur that’s outsourced to Accenture, the professional services firm, and codenamed “Project Honey Badger.”
We all know Honey Badger don't give a shit.
Offended? Find a safe space and cry yourself to sleep.
If Reuters can find it, why can't Facebook?
Because they are the wrong way. Suckerburger is a commi CIA shill and it's his job is to bring about division the world over, not just America.
The only thing which can be criminal is action.
That is a fundamental requirement of a Free Society.
You'd think things like that only happen in shithole countries like Myanmar, but look everywhere around you. It happens everyday, just to a lesser scale.
Human beings are still genetically programmed to be the barbarians they were ten thousand years ago. Xenophobia, tribalism, mysoginy, the desire for revenge instead of justice, are all ingraned into every single cell in our bodies. That's why civilization, and the principles it is built on, is so damn hard to implement and maintain. It's because even though almost every remotly well educated and knowledgeable human being agrees that it's a better way of life that the incessant conflicts, confrontations, bloodshed, genocides and war of the past, almost every instinct, impulse, emotion, and gut reaction in our bodies tells us otherwise.
true.
Either speech is free, or it's not.
At least we got rid of Alex Jones though.
I don't believe in karma, I just call it like I see it.
When actually, the Muslim are usually the aggressors.
Leftist media will always side with the Muslims - because all white Christian males are pure evil - Just ask Sarah Jeong.
“Moderate” Indonesia: Woman who complained about noise from a mosque’s loudspeakers charged with blasphemy, faces prison sentence. 14 Buddhist temples ransacked and burned in retaliation. It’s lucky Islam is so peaceful. Imagine the carnage if it wasn’t.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/indonesia-woman-irked-mosque-noise-073024215.html
...about hate speech by Muslim groups in the Middle East and ethnic cleansing against Christians.
Why is that?
Define "hate speech".
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
When you create a platform for speech, and involve billions of people, you should not be surprised when the racists, bigots, hate mongers and others find their way on to it, its a platform after all, an avenue for any kind of speech.
Civility and society dictates we act against those who infringe against our ethics and morals. So we have a conundrum, we know the people who infringe our ethics and morals, will facebook and others have the fortitude to act in the interest of our morals and ethics? So far they have not.
Tell me where you live. I'll then show up in the street, in front of your house, every morning. When you daughter comes out to go to school, I'll follow her there, telling her all the way that she's ugly, stupid, worthless, nobody loves her, her daddy hates her and her mother is a whore. And I'll wait for her after school, follow her home, and do the same thing. Over and over again, every single day, for days, weeks, months.
I'll never touch her, never get closer to her than a few meters, never constitute any physical threat to her. I'll never set foot on private property, yours or anyone else's, never set foot on school grounds, always remain on the street and other public places.
According to your own principles, I will never do anything wrong; I'll simply be exercising my free speech rights.
Words can hurt. They've caused bloodshed, genocide, and war throughout history. They can drive a young girl to commit suicide, or and enraged desparate father to commit murder.
And I'm really, really tired of little worthless high-horse riding, high-on-principles, keyboard warriors like you who have absolutely no idea how the real world works.
...mention the Rohingya massacre of Hindus in Myanmar? The dhimmitude is disgusting.
The only thing which can be criminal is action.
That is a fundamental requirement of a Free Society.
Of course you realize that almost every nation has laws against certain types of speech. A great example is threats of violence - that's considered illegal in almost any jurisdiction.
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Not that I am unsympathetic to the slaughter of muslims in Myanmar and the destruction of their homes their, but there has been a lengthy genocide against the (mostly Christian) Kachin people in that country, and there is little reporting about it, most definitely NOT in Amerika.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
Christians: conservatives liberals hate
Muslims: conservatives liberals love
... they just can't do it profitably. If they had to pay people with brains to scour their network to keep it shit-free, they wouldn't be profitable. They can only be wildly profitable by not actively managing their network.
I don't respond to AC's.
Action is all that matters. Why don't you get that?
Only speech, and it is free, all of it.
The Rohingya are Islamic terrorists aligned with extremeist mullahs who have issued fatwahs calling for the death and extermination of all Buddhists and the destruction of Myanmar. Buddhists are historically a chill peaceful religion content on living in harmony with others. In order to piss off the Buddhists of Myanmar, you really, really, have to be extreme evil assholes. That is what the Rohingya are. Extremist mullahs in Bangladesh are financing Rohingya terrorism and radicalized activiities. The goal of the Rohingya is to take over Myanmar and merge it with Bangladesh.
Just the usual violent muslim bullshit to which we are unfortunately becoming numb.
The rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority with darker skin on top of being mostly Muslim, so even if we accept your ridiculous nazi narrative it would still be pretty obvious they're the ones being victimized here.
Hateful words included. You idiots are 100% a part of the problem.
hate speech is not a thing.
It's a made up concept used to justify the silencing of dissent.
Reporting from reality...back to you, Jim.
It was from a junk opinion in the supreme court, and the Justice who wrote it later came to the conclusion that he was wrong.
The difference is "hate speech" is undefined, and as being used right now means any opinion we disagree with.
Terrorist threatening is defined under the law, and has a real victim. All such things are already illegal, and like parasites, some are trying to latch onto existing, long standing legal concepts to define their own fuzzy wording to outlaw any else speaking that they don't like. Only third world dictatorships and shitholes act that way.
Actually, no! They are Bangladeshi Muslims who live in Burma, but want to run an insurrection against the Burmese government. Which is why not just the ex junta, but even Ahn San Su Ki has resisted international attempts to condemn them. Ahn San could have gone along w/ the Islamic propaganda if she wanted, but she didn't, b'cos she saw what Muslims were doing to her country
Oh, you mean the TRUTH.
You know nothing about what really happened in Myanmar. Muslims (as usual) invaded in huge numbers, committed atrocities against the indigenous people, and then complain when they are finally thrown out of the country.
The correct response to people unhappy with your government is not to kill them all.
Condemning genocide is just fine by me.
Islam is the most well known violent religion. The people probably didn't hate Muslims when arrived in the country, so I would conclude the Muslims did something to incite the anger of the locals.
Islam is evil and the second crusade is coming. Just a matter of when.