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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by saagarjha on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:05PM (#16804780)
You're assuming that I'm even referring to Cambridge Analytica. I'm talking about the general sentiment towards Facebook in general as being an unethical company, of which the "leak" of data to Cambridge Analytica is a small part. There are other bad-faith things that Facebook has done, especially with regards to their users' privacy, that certainly have a negative impact on society.
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Re:Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments ... by peoplewindow on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:42AM (#16808879)
So replace "Cambridge Analytics" with "ads".

The vast majority of people do not consider advertising unethical. Nor do they consider social networks to be unethical.

I always struggle to figure out what classical rules of ethics Facebook (or Google) are supposed to have violated, but nobody can ever give me one. Instead there's a lot of begging the question.

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