would have been kicked out sooner had they not been complicit in the genocide. It does really excuse them but any company that takes a stand against that sort of thing is likely to get banned. Hypothetically a company like Facebook could choose ‘exit’ and walk away with clean hands, the open source developers of something like Mastodon have no recourse of any kind if those tools are misused.
I don’t question their complicity so far as it goes but I don’t know if anyone could have done better. Should Microsoft have turned off Microsoft Word for them? Should Qualcomm or other telecom vendors have shut off their phone network because they were misusing patented technology?
Sometimes I think genociders and quasi-genociders play ten dimensional chess and the rest of us are playing one dimensional tic tac toe. That is, our corporations think a quarter ahead, our governments an election ahead. They think ahead for hundreds or thousands of years that it will take for their enemies to be truly forgotten (e.g. when Poland was partitioned the parties had a secret treaty that ‘Poland’ would never be talked about; Austria-Hungary sure thought Austria-Hungary would be around longer than the Polish people.). You’d better believe Israel looks back to 2000 years ago when they got kicked out by the Romans and are similarly willing to wait a few hundred years to completely expel the Palestinians and erase their memory if it takes that. (Ironically if they hadn’t been kicked out by the Romans they might be forgotten now except for their contribution to ancient literature.)
Now maybe if the petroleum industry grew a backbone we could send a country like that to the stone age.
I think you mean Rohingya genocide [1] in which human rights organizations asserts that facebook playing/ed role [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutupalong_refugee_camp
[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...