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by cowpig 523 days ago
What liability are you referring to?
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Facebook never paid any reparations for the Rohingya genocide, and that was a genocide organized on their platform.

So I don't see how one could think some "most wanted" playing cards could create a liability?

Facebook took an enormous reputational hit over those events. They still receive bad press about them to this day. They Do. Not. Want. stuff like that on their platform.

Goodwill is literally an accounting line item.

And do you really think, if something like that happened in the US, that Facebook wouldn't get sued? Maybe they win, maybe not, but someone would definitely try.

We're talking about a deck of cards that satirize the USDIA Iraqi "most wanted". A deck of playing cards.

Think about all of the things you see on Facebook. Where does a deck of satirical playing cards fall on the spectrum of causing liability in your mind?

We're talking about a deck of cards that have US business executives one one side, a QR code explaining why they're evil, and a shooting target on the other side. Launched shortly after the murder of a CEO. This is an explicit call for murder.

If one of those executives ends up dead and the killer is found with this pack of cards in the pocket, everyone involved in the distribution chain is getting sued. Some may be criminally prosecuted. You might think it's funny, but judges and juries will not. Nor will grieving families.

Until recently, I ran a print-on-demand company. No way in hell I would touch something like this.