Facebook has gained immense traction in Myanmar in recent years [Hereward Holland/Al Jazeera]
Betsy Woodruff, Daily Beast: Exclusive: Facebook Silences Rohingya Reports of Ethnic Cleansing
The social network says it’s committed to helping the world ‘share their stories.’ But when people from Burma’s oppressed minority post, their stories have a habit of disappearing.
Rohingya activists—in Burma and in Western countries—tell The Daily Beast that Facebook has been removing their posts documenting the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people in Burma (also known as Myanmar). They said their accounts are frequently suspended or taken down.
The Rohingya people are a Muslim ethnic minority group in Burma. They face extraordinary persecution and violence from the Burmese military; military personnel torch villages, murder refugees, and force hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
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WNU Editor: On the flip-side, Facebook is being accused of amplifying hate speech against the Rohingya .... Facebook in Myanmar: Amplifying hate speech? (Al Jazeera).
If I was a betting man, I'd say that this is simply a PR stunt to give Facebook cover for cracking down on anyone who challenges the official narrative about the Rohingya's secessionist geurilla war.
ReplyDeleteFacebooks's ties to the CIA and US deep state are legendary in the IT world. And every time Facebook wants to shut up a particular online community - from Trump supporters to conservative pundits, tech journalists to free speech campaigners, it labels their activities as 'hate' and bans them outright or censors them. Every. Freaking. Time.
Problem-reaction-solution. All scripted. All tired and stale. And all very transparent.
I mean, think about it: almost all the media supports the Rohingya, despite the fact that they started a geurilla civil war. The Rohingya have zero problems putting across their message. It's actually the Mynmar government that has problems getting its spokespeople in the media, or getting airtime for its message. Look at the media coverage, and you quickly see how unbalanced it is. Almost nobody lets the Myanmar side of the story get on air or in print.
If you have everyone from Al Jazeera and The Daily Beast to BBC and CNN batting for you, how isolated are you, really?
Facebook has a clear history of left-wing activism. During the protests that led to the impeachment of President Dilma Roussef in Brazil and the protests for the departure of dictator Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, this situation was (and is) very clear.
ReplyDeleteWe have 'dueling' Anons!
ReplyDeleteI do not know about any CIA angle.
We do know that Snapchat will kowtow to Saudi Arabia.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2017/09/snapchat-complies-to-saudi-arabias.html
Before you criticize Snapchat, I will say that Snapchat's kowtow was very beautiful and I gave them '10'for style.
www.inc.com/magazine/201209/leigh-buchanan/life-after-the-inc-500-william-roetzheim-marotz.html
Facebook was very accommodating.
"Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China"
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censorship-tool-china.html
Can Facebook lay down with China and the CIA?
I imagine they would get very sore.