Sorry, I just forgot the most important point— blaming Facebook for this seems, to me, no different than blaming the manufacturer of the computer used to broadcast the crime...
FL > On 25-01-2017, at 15:04, F LM <flucom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As much as I value privacy and I hate Facebook, I think your message contains > critical fallacies on so many levels... > > First, I'm not sure Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopath — and certainly I don't > have any evidence to claim so. > > Second, couldn't it be possible that the group simply was not reported (small > group) and therefore not noticed until the transmission ended? We are just > making assumptions here. > > Third, are you suggesting Facebook should be permanently blocked? > > FL > >> On 25-01-2017, at 12:39, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: >> >> [ Yes, I know I'm following up my own message. There's a reason. ] >> >> Here's what Facebook Live did this week: >> >> Facebook Live 'broadcasts gang rape' of woman in Sweden >> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38717186 >> >> Police in Uppsala were contacted in the morning by a woman who >> said she had seen a gang rape broadcast in a closed group on >> the site. "You have been raped," one of the men said at the >> end of the video and then laughed, according to the viewer. >> Police later confirmed they, and "many" others, had seen the >> footage. The Facebook group is said to have several thousand >> members. Police confirmed that they had found three men, aged >> between 19 and 25, and one woman at a local apartment. The >> men were arrested on the spot. >> >> Read the whole article, all the way to the end. It shouldn't be >> surprising to anyone who's been paying attention: of *course* >> a company founded by a sociopath repeatedly exhibits sociopathic >> behavior: it's profitable. Why would one expect anything else? >> >> Now explain to me why you think it's a good idea to do anything >> other than firewall their network ranges permanently. >> >> ---rsk >> >> -- >> As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more >> closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the >> plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the >> White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -- H.L. Mencken 7/26/1920 >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >> list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
