'When the wrong thing goes around, emotions can be triggered and it can be taken out on any man on the street,” one Sri Lankan told The Washington Post.
By Devana Senanayake and Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow April 23 at 9:20 AM Darshini was able to use Facebook until 2 or 3 p.m. on Sunday — the day that explosions went off in three Sri Lankan cities, killing at least 321 people.
"Facebook just stopped. I did not get any messages my friends might have sent,” said Darshini, who is 60 and did not reveal her surname. “I only used the phone after that.” “It’s probably a good thing. When the wrong thing goes around, emotions can be triggered and it can be taken out on any man on the street,” she told The Washington Post. A “temporary ban is good to cool everyone down,” she said.
Kulasingham and others anticipated a social media ban because they’d seen one put in place before: In early 2018, amid anti-Muslim riots, the government banned Facebook because the social media giant wasn’t regulating hate speech that was in turn inciting violence, as BuzzFeed News reported. People started using VPNs to access social media back then, and so were ready with VPNs this time around.“Wrong rumor mongers can instigate violence.
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