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ben_wyesterday at 8:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

Off the top of my head, a genocide, albeit by being careless people rather than malicious:

  The chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar stated that Facebook played a "determining role" in the Rohingya genocide.[98] Facebook has been accused of enabling the spread of Islamophobic content which targets the Rohingya people.[99] The United Nations Human Rights Council has called the platform "a useful instrument for those seeking to spread hate".[100]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_content_management_co...

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slibhbyesterday at 8:20 PM

You might as well blame this on Tim Berners-Lee. It's just absurd, a clueless way of thinking about moral responsibility.

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curt15yesterday at 8:16 PM

See Sarah Wynn-Williams' book and congressional testimony for more.