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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by bootlooped on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:25PM (#18463513)
I don't think it would be a very persuasive argument. Atomic bombs have some easily quantifiable negatives, for example $5+ trillion spent on nuclear arms in the US alone, and ~200,000 mostly civilians killed.

https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/costs-us-nuclear-weapo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...

Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by daveFNbuck on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:28AM (#18466905)
The atomic bombs were dropped as a result of a dangerous political movement gaining power in Germany. That's the sort of thing people are upset about Facebook enabling now.
Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by saagarjha on Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:07PM (#18464341)
Just because something can’t be tied to “people died” does not make it a positive for society. Things like censorship and tracking don’t have clear and immediate negative externalities, but they are clearly wrong and they can enable other, worse things.
Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by bootlooped on Thursday November 15, 2018 @07:17PM (#18464893)
"Just because something can’t be tied to “people died” does not make it a positive for society."

I never asserted that Facebook was a positive for society, neither here nor ever in my life. I'm just saying it's a very steep uphill climb to make a convincing argument that it's worse than something that directly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and cost trillions of dollars.