Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall tomorrow

Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by humanrebar on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:41AM (#23388646)

What's the common standard then? Does it ban leaders of countries that oppress homosexuals and other minorities as policy? Leaders who actually imprison political dissenters?

Donald Trump is a bad president IMO, but there are far worse people (and their spokespeople) active on social media. The inconsistent standard makes this seem more like virtue signalling, which isn't quite "giving a shit about the state of the world".

EDIT: Corrected a typo. I think Trump is a bad president.

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Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by vore on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:28AM (#23388918)

So? Flag their messages too. You and I are both agreeing what Trump is saying is horrendous.

And, for what it's worth, I'm gay and a part of a minority and I am privileged to live somewhere where there's little repression for who I am. I absolutely want to see people pushing back on countries that have terrible leaders who would repress my life: if you're going to shrug then say "well that's just policy", that honestly sucks.

I'd take "virtue signalling" any day over whatever this response from Facebook is.

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Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by devado on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:03PM (#23396293)

> I am privileged to live somewhere where there's little repression for who I am.

We reached here because we had complete freedom of speech. And you are against that very thing, the irony

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Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by vore on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:43AM (#23412961)

This is a complete non-sequitur to what I said.

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