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Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by xvedejas on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:41PM (#18461384)
I have a couple friends who work there. As far as I can tell they're not interested in all the political news about Facebook and are probably not aware of most of it. Their attitudes are typically "if the management messes up, but I'm just building cool useful tools, I'm not part of the problem". And honestly, I kinda sympathize. Facebook can be a shitty company regardless of whether they're also building good infrastructure.
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Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by givinguflac on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:07PM (#18462201)
I definitely don’t/can’t sympathize with those people. It’s about personal responsibility, and they’ve found a lovely modern way to say “I was just following orders.”
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Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by xvedejas on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:24AM (#18467144)
They're not the ones deciding, nor the ones carrying out unethical actions. Employees working on technical infrastructure are not even enabling censorship or fake news, that's been possible on any centralized social media site forever. I don't see how "I was just following orders" even applies here.
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Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by givinguflac on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:34PM (#18470238)
Anyone intelligent enough to be building these tools should have a good idea of how it can be misused. It’s not like Facebook has a solid history of doing the right thing.
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