What are “War Crimes”?
War Crimes is breaking an International Humanitarian Law and offense of war laws by committing crime against civilians such as torturing war prisoners, killing civilians in cold blood.
How do tech companies hide the truth of war crimes?
According to tech companies, they do not hide the “truth” of war crimes, rather they are protecting the policies regarding the content. For e.g. take one famous social media, obviously there will be children, weak heart condition people, emotional and mentally disturbed individuals who use social media. Now, if we were to say, someone posted highly disturbing or violent content on a social media platform, all those above mentioned people are going to see it, which will leave them with trauma. If content is less disturbing, with the proper context that content can be allowed to stay on the platform. If not, the company has to remove it from the platform.
So what are the contents related to war crimes that go against policy?
- Terrorist activity
- Violent content
- Offensive content
- Adult content
War is messy and it is something that a person could never forget if they saw or experienced. War includes terrorist, offensive, violent and disturbing activities. Supposedly, there is a war going on between X and Y countries. X is very powerful in comparison to Y. Therefore, X declared a war on Y. Y country is in crisis and people are dying.
Is it possible that there are no other crimes being committed by X country except the ones that are being forecasted on television?
No of course not! Supposedly, there is Z Company, which is a platform for users to post small videos and photos. If someone posted a video of war crimes on the platform of Z Company. Z Company will remove it from the platform immediately.
Now where is that deleted content stored?
The answer is: In Z Company’s data storage. Every truth, every video, every photo of war crime is stored in that. Mystery solved!
Is it illegal for tech companies to hide the truth? If not, are they wrong to do it?
It is legal for tech companies to hide the truth. Honestly, they are not hiding anything. They are just following their policy and regulation.
But are they wrong to do it?
Partially, yes! Also, as explained earlier, allowing such disturbing and violent content is harmful to those users. Therefore, they are partially correct to remove such content.
Now after knowing a two sided perspective, it depends on you as an individual to decide if removing evidence of war crimes from websites is good or bad.
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