I mean, social networks already made genocide happen. They they were instrumental in the curren winning march of fascism - in USA, in EU in Asia.

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pibaker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is why China and Russia are shiny beacons of democracy and liberalism — they heavily regulate their social media!

Seriously, do people not look at history or at least the world around them when they make such claims? Genocides have happened before we had internet, or TV, or radio, or any modern technology people attribute genocides to. Hatred and violence are parts of human nature and trying to blame it on technology is just us trying not to make ourselves look bad.

	▲	watwut 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My point is, the "what happens when federal agents kick down your front" thing is already happening and happened. And curiously, tech libertarians ranting about the freedom were facilitating every single step along the way, actively helping those every single step along the way. > Genocides have happened before we had internet, or TV, or radio, or any modern technology people attribute genocides to. Genocides became more frequent every since we have technology. Technology facilitates genocides. Both by creating actual means of killing (industrial killing in WWII) and by creating conditions for distribution of "work". Radio specifically was instrumental in Rwanda.

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josteink 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s a very dramatic take - and I dare say a counter-factual one too.

Which actual genocide would you be talking about?

I really don’t think people should water out words like that over what is essentially tiny political differences.

	▲	microgpt 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Myanmar?
	▲	hdgvhicv 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46105934 Facebook has said it agrees with a report that found it had failed to prevent its platform being used to "incite offline violence" in Myanmar. The independent report, commissioned by Facebook, said the platform had created an "enabling environment" for the proliferation of human rights abuse. It comes after widespread violence against the Rohingya minority which the UN has said may amount to genocide.
	▲	watwut 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> I really don’t think people should water out words like that over what is essentially tiny political differences. I really don’t think people should minimize actual historical and current events for political purposes. Knee jerk "bad things are inconvenient, therefore they did not happened" denial is how we got here. > essentially tiny political differences The political differences between actual fascism that is on the rise, its actual opposition and those in between are large. Not small. Also, in more recent events there were pogroms in Belfast now. Elon Musk personally contributed to their incitement.