Posted: Jul 30, 2018 4:07 pm
quas wrote:Arjan Dirkse wrote:Facebook is a greater threat than Islam.
They're both the same.We [at Facebook] connect people…Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. [emphasis added]
Facebook has an algorithm that, based on your browsing interest, suggests to you what would like and new people you would want to befriend. So what actually happened was that, someone who's into looking up Islamic stuff on the internet -particularly the fundamentalist extremist content- gets recommendations for more of those nasty hate-filled content and befriends like minded people and ended up being a suicide bomber.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 19336.html
Of course, quas. Of course. Facebook and Islam are the same, except for one thing. Facebook tries to connect people according to what they like, and Islam tries to connect people according to what god they believe in. In the latter case, some of those people connect on the basis of what they hate, as happens with other social media, but not reliably, which is what you keep trying to imply. Do you have another point to make, or do you just want to keep dumping your usual non-sequiturs into this thread based on a new article making the observation that terrorists use social media? You cite a click-bait article at The Independent, so you're into social media, yourself. If anything, this article is about the ways people are encouraging social media companies to do more to police the customers that are trying to use their operations to inflict damaqge.
Much of the news you read anywhere can be taken as fear-mongering, which is where you find the most active comments threads - in articles like this one. Why don't you just try lashing out at most people's need to sell stuff in order to feed themselves and their families or just to increase their bank balances?