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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social

Contrast Facebook’s complicity with the genocide in Myanmar with this op-ed from FIRE. They’re right, most calls for genocide are legal. www.thefire.org/news/why-mos...

aug 5, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0

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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social

None of this appears to cross the line into incitement, even as actual murders are going on.

First, Facebook facilitated peer-to-peer interactions which affirmed and entrenched hateful narratives targeting Rohingya. One NGO study of online speech leading up to the genocide identified a crystallized narrative that took hold on Facebook. Citizens were identified as under threat from violent Muslim
aug 5, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social

Even posts directly linked to mob violence, like Wirathu posting about a “rumor of an alleged rape of a Buddhist girl by “Bengali-Muslim” men,” without an explicit call for violence is likely protected. Even if a “seemingly coordinated riot” occurs days later. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/a...

aug 5, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Greg Gentry @greggentry.bsky.social

There are societies that have gone a different way. Germany decided that maybe genocide was too high a price to pay and banned extremist parties. But, you know, they’re not really free.

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