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by hackerlight 789 days ago
A few people in Myanmar and a small handful of preteen girls don't matter according to the downvoters. Out of sight, out of mind.
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It's ridiculous to blame a decades long ethnic conflict that already had established routes of propaganda through the state on Facebook. You can also see no noticeable increase in violence correlating with internet access.
I'm not blaming the entire ethnic conflict on Facebook. I'm saying Facebook made it worse and, through reckless neglect, contributed to deaths of people that otherwise wouldn't have died.