Today I opened facebook to reply to a message from my mum, I got autoplaying videos of Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro "destroying" liberals and trying to discredit George Floyd. I hope we come out of this period with a better understanding of the responsibility we have of the effect of the technology we build, pretending the things we build are neutral and hiding behind "free speech" is not working
I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
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#12He’s standing up for what he believes. You can disagree with his convictions, but you should admire anyone who risks personal and financial consequences for sticking to their guns. That’s what actual morality is—not just a “belief” that is talked about but acted upon even when the results will be costly.
Agreed. Putting money behind your statement gives it much more weight.
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#13Well said and all best wishes for the future.
> My last day will be June 12th.
Well ... it might just come a little sooner than that ;-)
Much respect. I salute you.
Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
#14He’s standing up for what he believes. You can disagree with his convictions, but you should admire anyone who risks personal and financial consequences for sticking to their guns. That’s what actual morality is—not just a “belief” that is talked about but acted upon even when the results will be costly.
It’s a highly privileged position to be in to make a personal stand and leave your $250,000 job for another $250,000 job.
Not judging this way or that, just saying.
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#15If you resign from Facebook and don't tell anyone, have you really resigned?
If it's for principle, then you have to say why. Silent protest isn't.
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#16He’s standing up for what he believes. You can disagree with his convictions, but you should admire anyone who risks personal and financial consequences for sticking to their guns. That’s what actual morality is—not just a “belief” that is talked about but acted upon even when the results will be costly.
It’s a highly privileged position to be in to make a personal stand and leave your $250,000 job for another $250,000 job. Not judging this way or that, just saying.
Of course it is. Arguably the people with that privilege should have more obligation to exercise it in the service of what’s right.
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#17There is nothing praise-worthy about taking a stand now, you should have been out of there ten years ago or never started to begin with. Zuckerberg has been consistently out of control and unaccountable since the Beacon fiasco, which was in like 2008.
This is slightly more annoying than all the government officials who only dare criticize the executive branch after they retire. We have way more data over a longer period of time about how horrible this company is, you should have figured it out a long time ago.
The last thing I want to read in 2020 is essays from wealthy tech workers who already cashed out talking about "taking a stand". You're not brave, you're a coward.
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#18Kudos to them; this is great. I think both the resignation but also announcing so directly are brave (they have career ops and compensation to think about). Announcing publicly helps build a groundswell among tech workers not only at Facebook but other tech companies.
Plenty of companies hiring, I know my company is specifically looking for good people that are leaving because of layoffs and principled reasons.
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#19Presidents have all kinds of privileges that others don’t. Why should their privilege on social-media be diminished? To me the problem is not the platform but the fact that they have such exceptional privilege to begin with. What I don't understand is how you can be Facebook employee and also think the platform is the problem - lots of these especially in the React community [1]. If you believe Facebook is the proble…
Sometimes you can effect change from within.
Re: I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
#20If you resign from Facebook and don't tell anyone, have you really resigned?
Technically, no, and then they would probably terminate the employee.
Maybe this is better stated as "If you resign from a hugely visible platform, because it's bad, but you don't tell anyone, have you really maximized the impact of your resignation for good?"