Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ India Human Rights Report

[AndyMcConachie]

I guess America cares about India's human rights record now that India is trading with Russia and doesn't back Ukraine unconditionally. You coud totally see this coming once India started trading with Russia.

The Indian government, and especially the current government, has been treating muslims terribly for years. But the American establishment didn't have a problem with it until India declared they wouldn't go along with Russian sanctions.

[rsstack]

Facebook is not being accused by "the American establishment". They are being accused by private people, many of them not from the US.

[throwaway123x2]

India is getting an exemption from Russian sanctions because they're considered a counter-weight to China.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/us-house-of-representatives-...

[arcen]

What do you mean treating muslims terribly?

[hackerlight]

This was actively discussed in the US prior to March 2022, so I don't understand how you can hold that belief.

[YetAnotherNick]

Even US is trading with Russia.

[hunglee2]

Is it Facebook's role to monitor a country's human rights record? I'd be all for it, if that were the case, and it the criteria for human rights transgressions were universally applied.

[soamv]

As the opening sentence of the article says, the report under discussion is specifically about Facebook's impact:

> Meta has been accused of “whitewashing” a long-awaited report on its human rights impact in India

[hackerlight]

Nobody is saying that. They just don't want Facebook to play an active role in making things worse.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

> Ankhi Das, Facebook’s most senior executive in India, resigned in October 2020 after the Wall Street Journal reported she had intervened to prevent the platform removing accounts of members of the country’s Hindu nationalist ruling party, some of whom had called for violence against India’s Muslim minority.

I am not sure it is Facebook’s place to be policing members of the government of the largest democracy in the world.

[causi]

In what way is that "policing"?

[oneoff786]

So… you’re in favor of providing a platform to call for violence against ethnic minorities?

[anon261114]

Facebook claims to follow a content moderation policy [1] for users on its platform. "Members of the government of the largest democracy in the world" is not a justification to bestow some kind of immunity from their policy. They should apply that policy to all users.

[1]: https://transparency.fb.com/en-gb/policies/community-standar...

[anon261114]

Accessible version: https://archive.ph/o7tfG

[statguy]

For overall context, the current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful protests and turning a blind eye to fireband Hindu leaders openly calling for genocide against Muslims.

https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/beyond-blasphemy-in...

https://www.boomlive.in/news/hindu-rashtra-convention-bengal...

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/india...

https://article-14.com/post/jailed-or-punished-with-or-witho...