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by sacrosanct on 1/2/24, 4:16 PM with 1 comments

• by PaulHoule on 1/2/24, 4:35 PM

  ... the Myanmar situation is a tough one, do you really believe Mastodon could have done better? I mean, the Myanmar could have run its own Mastodon instances specifically to promote genocide and they could have blocked access to any servers that tried to get in the way. An organization like Facebook can be said to be responsible for a situation like that, but in a decentralized "organization" it is always somebody else that is responsible.

  It's like that movie Wargames, the only way to win is not to play. You run into so many problems when you try to operationalize "universal values" you could make the case that western companies shouldn't get involved with non-western countries at all. For instance you could say that Apple and everybody else who does manufacturing and other business in China is implicit in the genocide of Uyghurs.

  Are we going to say the U.S. was responsible for Myanmar because it didn't drop a tactical nuclear bomb on the headquarters of their military to stop the genocide?