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

Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by jimmydorry on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:19AM (#23390674)

Facebook should provide the platform and stop there. When they act as publishers and start editorialising or adding "platform opinions" to the user generated content, they can rightly be asked why they endorse everything else on their site that isn't "edited" or "added to".

We need to think real hard about what we want in 5 years and beyond from now... not just what we want now. Breaching the divide of platform and publisher for anything beyond light moderation to keep the platform usable, no matter how well intentioned, is bound to have a devastating result on future political expression.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:21AM (#23390694)

Nice idealism. But human beings have trouble managing that kind of platform. Every idiot's lies look just as legitimate as expert opinion. Other idiots can search for confirmation of their biases and find any number of hits that way.

Call it what you like; we're not coping very well with unrestricted dissemination of disinformation. Folks have gamed it at the highest levels.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by devado on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:10PM (#23396350)

Aren't zuck and his company made of humans? What magic powers do they have to suddenly curate things accurately and deem the destiny of mankind? I have trouble following what you are trying to say. Maybe you are asking for all social media to be shutdown altogether.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:54AM (#23402766)

You made all that up. I asked for nothing. Ridicule is unnecessary and misplaced.

Funny how folks get defensive when criticism of their addiction is put forward. You can always tell.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by devado on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:22PM (#23410246)

And you still haven't told us what your solution is. It's easy to criticize. "it sucks" . ok, so?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg pla... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:45PM (#23420251)

Not smart enough to fix all mankinds ills. Just noticing, we're addicted and its not going well.

[ Parent | on HN ]