Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company’s stance

Re:Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of co... by sixstringtheory on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:20PM (#23383994)

A thought experiment regarding the "just quit" argument:

You're placed in a room with a person who is raving about homicidal fantasies. A gun is placed in the middle of the room. You don't think they should have access to this gun because of their statements. Is the solution to:

1) leave the room

2) try to get control of the gun before they do

Facebook is a tool, the same as that gun.

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Re:Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of co... by dnissley on Monday June 01, 2020 @08:28PM (#23385774)

You can certainly make a case for facebook being a weapon, but you could just as easily make a case that it's not. This is a terrible thought experiment that has us assume the former without considering the latter.

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Re:Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of co... by sixstringtheory on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:06PM (#23386054)

I didn't mean to make the case that Facebook a weapon. I even said

> Facebook is a tool, the same as that gun.

But I chose a weapon to try to show something with high impact that is simple to understand.

Try it with an unhappy neighbor, a tree on your property line and a set of garden shears.

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Re:Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of co... by bhl on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:24PM (#23384734)

This is a bad thought experiment, because a solution could be to empty the gun and then to leave the room.

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Re:Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of co... by sixstringtheory on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:51PM (#23385016)

You'd have to gain control of the gun before them in order to empty it.

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