Facebook Needs to Pay Attention to Ukraine

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Clarissa

May 12, 2015

It’s gotten to the point where the President of Ukraine is personally asking stupid Zuckerberg to open a Facebook office in Ukraine because Kremlinbots rule Facebook like it’s their loyal vassal. For instance, they’ve managed to ban as pornographic this photo of a little girl wearing her dead father’s medal:

Of course, what upset the Kremlinbots were the colors of the Ukrainian flag in the photo. There are so many trolls who do this sort of thing professionally that it’s next to impossible to keep any pro-Ukrainian Facebook page alive. And Zuckerberg, while opening completely useless offices in places like Montréal, still can’t open one in Ukraine.

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NG

May 12, 2015

It’s not just face book. Truth out, a major progressive website, has a current top story on the Ukraine.

“A report issued on March 1, 2015 by the Moscow-based Foundation for the Study of Democracy contains chilling descriptions of the widespread use of torture and other inhumane treatment of prisoners by the Ukrainian army and paramilitary forces and by its Ukraine’s national security police. The report is titled, ‘War Crimes of the Armed Forces and Security Forces of Ukraine: Torture and Inhumane Treatment’. It is 144 pages long, half in Russian and half in English.”

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30726-released-prisoners-detail-widespread-use-of-torture-by-Ukrainian-army-and-security-services

The reporter, Roger Annis, seems to have accepted the charges without question and without a rebuttal by the Ukraine side. This begs the question of discourse boundaries and consensus positions which I brought up on another topic a few years ago. At the time, it was about the media reframing the fiscal conflict between the rich and poor as generational issue i.e. greedy geezers versus slacker youth. In England, it’s easy to relate the media who are owned by nine wealthy individuals whose interests are aligned with the Conservative party with the bias displayed by the print. In Russia, the media are controlled by the government and follow its dictates. In America, it’s a bit more opaque. How is a consensual bias arrived at? I don’t have the answer but what are your thoughts? Did a whole lot of folks wake up one morning and decide that the Ukraine would now be referred to as a “former soviet vassal state”?

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Z

May 13, 2015

Gorgeous little girl, sad she lost her father…

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[…] Here, for instance, is an old post of mine about Zuckerberg siding with the Russian trolls. This is just one tiny example. I read Ukrainian and Russian Facebook, and this is a daily occurrence. […]

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