‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students

Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by blub on Sunday November 18, 2018 @12:26PM (#18481461)

Working at the company which is responsible for making election manipulation easier, facilitating murders and manipulating billions of people into giving up their private information is not ok, even if one actually works on some cool JavaScript library and not the evil bits themselves.

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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by deminature on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:07PM (#18488812)

By this definition, anyone working for any platform that facilitates communication could be responsible for this unless they're policing literally every message, in which case they're grossly violating the privacy of users. This is a ridiculous standard to hold engineering staff against.

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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by pathseeker on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:52PM (#18538645)

No it's not ridiculous. If Facebook is paying you to work on anything, they are getting more value out of you than your salary in their tracking endeavors.

Would you justify working for the Nazis if it was on open source libraries to better enable tracking people?

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