Facebook and Instagram let users call for death to Russian soldiers over Ukraine

theguardian.com

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One of the defining aspect of this conflict is how fast any modern liberal foundational value can fall apart, with no one batting an eye, once there is enough "justification" for it.

What's frightening is it took several years for Germany. 2 weeks for the entirety of the Western world.

Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632695

It seems wield. There are people being killed around the world every day. Why only Ukraine but not vitims of other invasions?

Good. Banning calls for the death of people literally going around murdering Ukrainian civilians seems disproportionate.

I feel it for Meta, this is a really hard problem. Why is it allowed only in certain neighbouring countries and not all? Why now? Why make exception in this conflict and not the others?

I think it is hard to accept that company in US makes these decisions for all vs local news papers or governments etc. like it used to be.

Would you have written the same if FB had allowed death calls for US citizens in the 2000s?

Considering the number of currently occupied countries by atleast some of the NATO members' armies, you could still get A LOT of death calls for many of the people, that mainstream media considers "the good guys".

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