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Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by jcadam »

spamizbad wrote: post #10
narrator wrote: post #2

Probably why he's going to start hiring outside of tech hubs.

Regardless of location, Facebook is hiring from demographics that typically don't support Trump. Young, STEM-educated people skew left. If you want Trump supporters to even things out you're probably going to either: A) hire older devs from less traditional software dev backgrounds. B) Still pull from Young+STEM but filter out anyone whose social media indicates them as being left-ish.

Who wants to work for a company where they're living in constant fear of being outed as a non-leftist and losing their job?

I get the frequent recruiting emails from FB and (much less frequently) Google, but am really too afraid to pursue them.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by whymauri »

arusahni wrote: post #3

This is part of the circle of life for internal Facebook turmoil: 10 Facebook does something to draw ire 20 Employee drama 30 The company leadership offers some platitudes to buy time 40 GOTO 10

5. (Optional) Establish some Oversight Council or Committee, to be disenfranchised, dissolved, or declawed at the company's earliest convenience.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by throwaway7281 »

Facebook is reality, but it's also just a game. It goes like this: how deep can we go exploiting people by using information technology. How much "person" can we extract? How far can we go controlling this person (e.g. make sure user is happy, etc.).

The second game is: How can we PR our way out of the nightmares we knowingly create month after month?

It amazes me every day how the corporation and all its employees are able to maintain the BS level required to believe in the "mission" of the company.

If you can imagine it, I never had an active account in my life and I am happy about it. And believe it or not, I still do exists have friends and family and a "social" life.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by dabbernaught420 »

mjayhn wrote: post #7

People on twitter at other $bigtech seem more than happy to bring you all on board but you've been sucking that $270k+ top-end-even-for-FAANG salary with no concern for the ethics or morality of your business for years. This isn't new. I'm less than excited to see Facebook show up on a resume and haven't been for years. Not to mention the people I've interviewed from there seem to get so accustomed to working on Face…

FAANG talking down on other FAANG seems funny.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by hobs »

blueterminal wrote: post #24

People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real? We really need mainstream decentralized applications more than ever. Thoughts of people should not be censored. Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you? This is just ridiculous. I don't like Facebook but great decision by Mark. Same as they decided to not re…

Yeah, calls for murdering people by the president don't present any new thing for us to consider potentially new processes might apply, he's definitely not a person with enormous power, and he's definitely acting in good faith.

Thoughts of people are censored by themselves constantly because of the potential harm they cause, if you cant muzzle yourself and you call for violence expect others to do it for you.

People have died when Trump has tweeted, and he has shown no remorse or guilt, in fact he takes no responsibility.

So, who the heck would want him on their platform? Why would you spend your server time and money on a child-brained fascist?

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by lorsting »

blueterminal wrote: post #24

People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real? We really need mainstream decentralized applications more than ever. Thoughts of people should not be censored. Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you? This is just ridiculous. I don't like Facebook but great decision by Mark. Same as they decided to not re…

It's not real. This is fake news working for the Democrats.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by phone8675309 »

blueterminal wrote: post #24

People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real? We really need mainstream decentralized applications more than ever. Thoughts of people should not be censored. Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you? This is just ridiculous. I don't like Facebook but great decision by Mark. Same as they decided to not re…

>Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you?

Except Facebook is a private platform. That people use it does not make it a public platform. That would be like arguing that Six Flags over Georgia can't remove you from their park because you started protesting in it. Yes, there are people there, but no, just because they're there and it's a popular place doesn't mean they can't remove you if they want to (so long as they're not breaking another law by doing it).

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by jhowell »

drevil-v2 wrote: post #17

Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.

In your opinion whose view best represents "the population as a whole," and what percentage of the conversation does their opinion represent?

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by myvoiceismypass »

blueterminal wrote: post #24

People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real? We really need mainstream decentralized applications more than ever. Thoughts of people should not be censored. Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you? This is just ridiculous. I don't like Facebook but great decision by Mark. Same as they decided to not re…

Facebook is doing the same thing with some political ads (the ones that criticize Trump, of course) - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/08/lincoln-project-called-faceb...

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by dordoka »

neilsimp1 wrote: post #12
spamizbad wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regardless of location, Facebook is hiring from demographics that typically don't support Trump. Young, STEM-educated people skew left. If you want Trump supporters to even things out you're probably going to either: A) hire older devs from less traditional software dev backgrounds. B) Still pull from Young+STEM but filter out anyone whose social media indicates them as being left-ish.

> but filter out anyone whose social media indicates them as being left-ish. Hiring based on political beliefs, or in this case, presumed political beliefs, sounds like a dangerous road to go down. And I am saying this as a young, STEM-educated person who skews left.

At least in EU, discriminating based on political beliefs goes against art. 21 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Pardon my ignorance but, is that allowed in the US?
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