Does Facebook Enable or Encourage Criminals?
5 min readFeb 19, 2021
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Some definitions before the story:
Enable:
- to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to:
- to make possible or easy:
Encourage:
- to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence:
- to stimulate by assistance, approval, etc.:
Enable is more passive. In the case of online criminality, it would be merely providing the platform that makes crime possible. Encourage is active. Here it would be…