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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.
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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.

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