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Re:Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws by annadane on Saturday March 02, 2019 @11:30AM (#19289839)
Right. I would love to be a fly on the wall and see where things go wrong. Do the happy smiley PR people never talk to the actual figureheads making the corrupt decisions? Are they being held at gunpoint to say these glowing things about the company? etc etc etc.

I think Zuckerberg and Sandberg may not even be trying to be "evil" - maybe they are, I have no clue - they're "just" trying to grow their company in order to "do good in the world". If you convince yourself of something enough then you'll tend to put the blinders on to everything else. But people working jobs need to ask themselves on a continual basis if things are OK or if on the other hand their work causes real pain and misery

Re:Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws by prophesi on Saturday March 02, 2019 @11:43AM (#19289892)
If someone quits due to a moral conflict, that just leaves the job open for someone with a lower moral standard. And a $100k salary job is a $100k salary job.

Plus, almost by definition, you have to put the blinders on to work in public relations.

Re:Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws by anticensor on Saturday March 02, 2019 @12:08PM (#19290002)
Zuck already achieved his ideal, with a few compromises: well-connected social network of whole world, with no ethical abstention to share.