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Sri Lanka’s cannabis-seekers are gathering on Facebook

The Verge

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

The access to information drives knowledge. Andrew Keen: The wall in Berlin was open by accident by a guard, so you could argue that the internet is a distribution of knowledge so that would have never happened. So, this organization of knowledge could actually be a good thing for demoralizing government.

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The tier list: how Facebook decides which countries need protection

The Verge

They highlight the degree to which Facebook employees are aware of the gaps in their knowledge about issues in the public interest, and their efforts to learn more. There is a pervasive sense that, on some fundamental level, no one is entirely sure what’s going on.

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