Facebook banned a full language in January for 24 hours
- On 16 January, whenever members of the Katxin minority in Burma (Myanmar) were trying to write in their language, Facebook was blocked. There was no way to make a post in that language. "Your request cannot be processed," the Facebook system replied. For the next day, they fixed it, and Facebook launched the excuse. "There has been a bug (computer error) in our linguistic infrastructure."
Unlike Burmese, the Kachins use the Latin alphabet to write their language (Jinghpaw). It is estimated that there are about 1.1 million speakers in a country of about 50 million inhabitants. There are several ethnic groups and minorities in Burma, but the xovinism of the dominant ethnicity, the Burmese and the Buddhist, is terrible. From the point of view of military authority or the alleged Democratic leader by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma is one, only the Burmese, the only religion is Buddhism, and the terrorists who have to dominate everyone else: that centralist nationalist policy has led Rohingya to genocide against the Muslim minority.
In particular, it has been denounced that messages hated by the Buddhist, who, he claimed, are "inhumane", are broadcast via Facebook. Last year, Facebook announced that it had launched a hate content policy as a reaction. In February 2019, Facebook also banned the pages of four anti-Burmese movements, including the pages of the Katxin Army of Independence, to compensate them.
In this context, Katxinn looks like a technical warning you've seen 24 hours ago: you can censor your activity at any time, or from another point of view, knowing that your messages are detected automatically is a scary thing.
History has been read in the publication The Verge.
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