Blocklist Facebook domains

Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by madeofpalk on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:45PM (#16633909)

I worked for a less-than stellar online publication in Australia. Think low-budget Daily Mail. I didnt care, I still got paid and got to switch off and do my own thing when I wanted to. I'm not my job.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by dclowd9901 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:11PM (#16634729)

“I’m not my job”

You are when your job requires you to sidestep your morals.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by madeofpalk on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:41AM (#16637878)

Sure. Okay then.

That doesn't bother me. I still go to the pub after work with friends and have a good time.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by dclowd9901 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:02PM (#16641276)

Must be nice to live free of consequence.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by tudelo on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:40AM (#16648076)

Can you explain your reasoning for claiming that working at a place that publishes low-quality news is immoral?

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by dredmorbius on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:50AM (#16670962)

Examine the present embroglio over Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, weaponised viral clickbait, fake news, radicalisation, etc., etc.

Media are the information sourcing and feedback loop for societies. The print media went through its crisis of awareness in the early 20th century. See especially Lippmann's Public Policy.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by joering2 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:29AM (#16635974)

I heard once that if there is something - whether of a monetary value or not - that allows you to "sidestep your morals", then you didn't have any morals in the first place.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by cheeze on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:26PM (#16640387)

Then I'd argue that I don't have any morals in the first place.

There are differing levels of how strongly I feel about certain moral values I hold. For example, working for a company that dealt in wholesale killing of others is obviously worse than working for an advertising network. Would I work for doubleclick for $1M a year? Hell yeah. Would I spy on citizens of my country for the same amount? No.

Does that make me not have morals? I don't know.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by alcover on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:10PM (#16634048)

That is what I suspect but still.. Respect in the eye of peers is a human need. If I met a developper and learned he works for FB, it would be visible on my face that I feel somewhat put-off.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by Analog24 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:35PM (#16634196)

A lot of people have more important things to worry about than the respect of their peers.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by hueving on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:51PM (#16634635)

>Respect in the eye of peers is a human need

'Peer' is very flexible. This could be a comparison to people the same age in other careers.

Also, keep in mind that Facebook engineers are constantly surrounded by other Facebook engineers so their SE peers probably do approve. They collectively don't think Facebook is a problem so they implicitly approve of each other.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by dawnerd on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:53PM (#16634648)

I worked for eHow. We felt the same as the people complaining about it. But it paid the bills. Did get to learn how to scale REALLY fast.

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