Facebook: Sorry for flaming ethnic and religious tensions in Myanmar

[pRICE cUBE]

I present this as a discussion of the role social media/tech plays in worldwide event. Should social media have a code of ethics? Who watches the watchers of social media platform policies?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/27/17785...y-genocide

Facebook has banned a number of high-profile accounts in Myanmar that it says helped “inflame ethnic and religious tensions” in the Southeast Asian country.

In a blog post, Facebook again admitted it had been “slow to act” to the situation in Myanmar, where the minority Muslim Rohingya population has been the target of a genocidal campaign fueled by propaganda spread on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network. In a report released by the United Nations today, investigators accused Myanmar’s military of orchestrating acts that “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law,” including mass killings, gang rapes, and the destruction of entire villages.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I think social media needs to have a better code of ethics than it already does (well, everywhere but China). The EU has passed us by a long way.

[RAMd®d]

I think social media needs to have a better code of ethics than it already does (well, everywhere but China).

Agreed.

Pretty much social media in general, allows if not fosters baseless hate and bullying, and proliferation of FOD. And it does nothing to educate users about the concept of 'free speech' and the lack understand what it is, not to mention explaining the difference between censorship and editorializing.

There is a lot of good in social media, but the good:bad leaves me cold.

And now I've got to chase some kids of my lawn.