[lallysingh]

> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

I don't think it's that far apart.

[bilbo0s]

It's pretty far apart to be honest.

What FB and Suu Kyi do in Myanmar is terrible, but they would have to replicate the same genocide in every nation across the globe to match the body count of the tobacco guys.

(Which they may manage to do in the future. Who knows? But to date they are just not there yet to be perfectly frank.)

[austenallred]

It really doesn’t make sense to me that the argument is basically this:

“The x military shared anti-y Facebook posts, then caused a genocide of the y people.”

And Facebook is at fault?

Do we really expect Facebook to police speech at that level, or should we not place the blame with the military?

Those posts came from .0000066% of Facebook’s users. If you’re Facebook how do you effectively police that?

[lallysingh]

Hey those kids chose to smoke those Camels! How's the cigarette company responsible?

[austenallred]

You really don’t see any difference there?

[lallysingh]

Children and militaries will act predictably. How Facebook reacts is the variable under question.