Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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Post by Kiro » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 5:53 AM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #108

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why bother with optics? Well, for one thing, presumably they still need to recruit people once in a while (including people with lots and lots of options).

IMO, the kind of people who work for and who would join Facebook are the ones who're self-selected to not care about morals or the ill effects of their work on billions of people. So optics doesn't come into the equation for Facebook to recruit people. Those who do care about optics would never even dream of working at Facebook.

You're exaggerating. What are those ill effects exactly?

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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Post by FartyMcFarter » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 12:01 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #131

newscracker wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO, the kind of people who work for and who would join Facebook are the ones who're self-selected to not care about morals or the ill effects of their work on billions of people. So optics doesn't come into the equation for Facebook to recruit people. Those who do care about optics would never even dream of working at Facebook.

You're exaggerating. What are those ill effects exactly?

Consult the N apologies Zuckerberg has issued on things like privacy for some examples.

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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Post by EnFinlay » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

resters wrote: post #88

dymk wrote: post #81

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Some large subset of the HN crowd isn't interested in being civil, or preferring realistic comparisons to hyperbole, when talking about Facebook anymore. The two above comments I made are sitting at moderately positive vote counts, so it makes me happy that at least > 50% of HN is bored of the way we've been discussing this topic for the last few years.

It’s not fair to call my comment uncivil.

I don't think the civil comment was directed at you specifically

Re: Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

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Post by novok » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 11:27 PM UTC

godelski wrote: post #102

novok wrote: post #87

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I think in the past, credit reporting agencies did want to make things equivalent to social credit, or make social credit type things apply to your financial credit score, but were stopped by legislation.

Do you have evidence? Or is this just speculation?

It's a vague memory that I remember reading somewhere in a news article I couldn't find. Maybe it's a good enough hint for someone to else to find the source?