"We shouldn't give Burma the internet because they might commit a genocide"

Do you hear yourself? Let's not give them electricity and fossil fuels either. Just keep them in dark age conditions so they don't hurt anyone.

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ben_w an hour ago | parent [-]

> Do you hear yourself?

Better than you heard me, given that's not what I said.

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solid_fuel an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is an uphill battle, I'm afraid. As evidenced from their other comments, slibhb struggles a lot with basic moral concepts like "you are responsible for the things you do".

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slibhb an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It's very fashionable for Westerners to evince belief in the idea that inhabitants of third-world countries have no free will and aren't responsible for their actions. We're told that everything bad that happens in those countries is due to large Western companies or a history of colonization.

This is all very silly. The genocide in Myanmar (it's a civil war last I checked) isn't Facebook's fault (legally or morally). Facebook has surely made mistakes, but that doesn't make them to blame for people killing each other on the other side of the world.

	▲	ben_w 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You're still shadow-boxing with what you want me to have written, not what I actually wrote.