William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions

Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by HBSisBS on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @01:07AM (#8072989)

Things against Facebook rarely fail to rise to the top of HN. Anything not favoring Facebook gets up here quickly. Why am I surprised.

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Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by kyrra on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @01:25AM (#8073024)

There are a lot of Facebook employees on HN, just like there are a lot of Google employees here. Those employees will do some level of astroturfing. Unless HN prevents us from voting on topics where there is a conflict of interest, it's hard to keep the bias out.

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Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by Kiro on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @03:51AM (#8073314)

Why would employees vote up negative articles? I think you misread what HBSisBS said.

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Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by bitJericho on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @08:17AM (#8073899)

Employees vote up anything related to their employer.

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Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by r00fus on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @02:07AM (#8073119)

Facebook has made a lot of questionable or incite-ful moves lately (Fwd.us, Slingshot, many acquisitions without a coherent vision) while it's quality and usefulness to many has become of marginal importance.

This isn't 2009/2010, where Iranians and Tunisians were using FB to coordinate peaceful protests. Instead, fear of the encroaching security-industrial-complex revealed by Snowden has people concerned about posting stuff to FB.

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Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by HBSisBS on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @03:42AM (#8073295)

Fwd.us is questionable? I'd like to know a solid reason other than "get foreign workers bs". Also note that fwd.us has nothing to do with Facebook. Its a personal initiative.

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Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by r00fus on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @01:35PM (#8075654)

http://allthingsd.com/20130510/elon-musk-and-david-sacks-dep...

Buying influence can look dirty, especially when it runs opposed to your stated goals.

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Re:William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions by drzaiusapelord on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @11:32AM (#8074896)

> I'd like to know a solid reason other than "get foreign workers bs".

The way companies use and abuse the H1B visa program and what that does to domestic wages is controversial. You can dismiss it but then don't demand more things to dismiss.

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