I’m not sure that’s the best counter-example. The executives and broadcasters of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines were put on trial and sentenced to decades of prison for incitement to commit genocide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Ruggiu … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Nahimana …https://twitter.com/dpinsen/status/1071656214382215168 …
We’ve never had 2 billion people on the same platform so our legal system and norms have yet to be tested on this. But they will at some point.
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If human rights groups warned the company for years that the country’s military was using Facebook as a vector to instigate genocide and the company continued to operate with two Burmese speakers in Singapore/elsewhere for years, isn’t that negligence? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html …
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I don’t know - if the country was run by a Nobel Peace laureate who was long praised by human rights groups, maybe some skepticism was understandable?
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It may make more sense to break it up.
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Break it up how? Per country into national silos? That directly harms immigrants and others
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