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slibhbyesterday at 9:51 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


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ben_wyesterday at 10:06 PM

You're still shadow-boxing with what you want me to have written, not what I actually wrote.

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