Posted on 08/27/2018 7:48:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Facebook’s action means an essential blackout of the military’s main channel of public communication, with pages followed by millions of people in a country where the social media giant is virtually synonymous with the internet.
“Specifically, we are banning 20 Burmese individuals and organizations from Facebook — including Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the military’s Myawady television network,” Facebook said in a blog post.
"We're removing a total of 18 Facebook accounts, one Instagram account and 52 Facebook Pages, followed by almost 12 million people,"
It is the first time Facebook has imposed such a ban on a country’s military or political leaders, the company later said it response to a query from Reuters.
Facebook spokeswoman Clare Wareing said by email that the social media site took this step, “since international experts, including a UN-commissioned report, have found evidence that many of these officials committed serious human rights abuses in the country.”
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Who's "we"? They officially changed their country's name. It happens, there is no Siam or Ceylon anymore either.
Is this the same “Facebook” that supported and organized the arab spring in Egypt? THAT Facebook?
So does our government.
I just had a customer with a green card that said Burma on it.
Mine are not even income/business related; and the ones my friends don’t see are anything polirical: and they have me categorized as “very conservative” on the data they have on me. The last one is a category - your politics - that they determine from watching your posts and comments.
This was interesting. Thought to check out the why’s and when of the name change. My nephews wife came here several years ago from there. They had a typical Burmese wedding. Extravagant and beautiful.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7013943.stm
#2 That would be bad.
Or at least canned. Maybe Mark Zuckerberg will be kidnapped like the Chinese do and... who knows?
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