Well, no. If you stick to a job at an employer that does this kind of crap then indirectly you are an enabler, even if you protest. Meta would replace them but that's on Meta, not on those that walked out.

Meta will not stop short of government action and I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is happening at the request of that government in the first place. Zuckerberg may have some excuse (say, they showed him a documentary about Jack Ma) but he definitely either folded or just straight up decided to comply in advance.

Fair enough, but wouldn’t you rather have someone accept complicity - but try what they can, instead of someone who follows blindly?

The world exists in shades of grey my friend..

The point is that this is performative. They don't try what they can, they just make some noise. Facebook couldn't possibly pay me to work for them.

> If you stick to a job at an employer that does this kind of crap then indirectly you are an enabler, even if you protest. Meta would replace them but that's on Meta, not on those that walked out

So walking away would allow the former-employees to have a clear conscience, in full knowledge that the evil will continue exactly the same without them?

This is a somewhat exotic philosophical position you are staking out here

> So walking away would allow the former-employees to have a clear conscience, in full knowledge that the evil will continue exactly the same without them?

So they know nothing will change regardless of what they do and yet they willingly continue to sell their time and skills to said evil organisation?

Interesting.

> I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is happening at the request of that government in the first place

You wouldn't be surprised if the incumbent candidate requested that Meta platform and systematically encourage voting for their rightwing opponent? What do you think happened here?

And as for me, I want people with morals to stick around and try to influence things in a positive direction. It's so easy to get on one's high horse and say "then go elsewhere", but everyone acting like that is a short path to a worse world. Tend the gardens you are in while you can, but I don't blame anyone who just can't carry that torch day-in, day-out.