LOL what a loser
I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
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#92Presidents 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.
I mean, obviously Cambridge analytica, election manipulation, ad creep, privacy issues, psychological experiment on masses, and so many dark things just happened without anyone working on them and of course people changed it from inside.
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#93Virtue signalling at its finest.
Hopefully it will inspire more people to be virtuous.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course it is. Arguably the people with that privilege should have more obligation to exercise it in the service of what’s right.
Whilst his stance is to be applauded, it lessens the value of the stance given that he’s not sacrificing much and won’t suffer for his cause. Doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do, just that it would carry more weight if he was leaving to go work at Burger King. Then you’d say “man that guy stands tall”. Edit: Ok reasonable criticism, I’ll withdraw.
Wouldn't you say that a society that only places high value on taking a stance if that comes at great personal cost will probably not find too many people willing to take a stance?
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#95Don't care when faangs help actual oppressive regimes, but "make a stand" when trump hurts your feelings.
More pathetic virtue signaling
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#96I don't understand why doesn't Facebook just: -Allow all posts -Allow users to customize what they want to see (e.g. "dont show me posts that glorify violence" or "only allow covid posts that match WHO guidelines" or "allow exceptions from political figures or of historical significance") and allow users to ban hide posts that are found untruthful by third parties (snopes, etc). To me effectively everyone wins. Faceb…
See you have a healthy respect for the idea of free expression, as do I
Unfortunately we are in the minority, the majority wants SOMEONE ELSE to choose what they can see, what is the "good speech" and what is the "bad speech"
They want someone else to tell them what the "good things" are they should be supporting, and what the "bad things" are that they need to oppose
In short, people no longer want to think critically for themselves, they want the magic box to do that for them
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's much more than most people have done and having the skills to be payed $250,000 is not a privilege. you don't wake up one day knowing how to code it'a a lot of work.
It's a privilege when it is relatively accessible to some and not to others. Given that it's much easier for a kid in the Western hemisphere to learn coding than for a poor kid in a remote village in Bangladesh, it is a privilege for the former that the latter doesn't have.
I come from a poor country, I was selling shoes since the age of 13 to be able to pay for my school books, now I have a 100k job ... I didn't get here because I was privileged, I worked my ass off. was I lucky? yes but not privileged.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, it doesn't sound like he has another job lined up. There's no guarantee his next job will pay that well.
With the amount of fame he is getting with this post, I would be surprised if he did not receive 30+ offers that pays well yet. Edit: Of course, the big 5 (FAANG) will not touch him even with a 10 meter pole, but there are other places also pays well.
Exactly, this guy is getting enough traction on linkedin and facebook as well. His inbox would be flooding with invites for interviews right now.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course it is. Arguably the people with that privilege should have more obligation to exercise it in the service of what’s right.
Whilst his stance is to be applauded, it lessens the value of the stance given that he’s not sacrificing much and won’t suffer for his cause. Doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do, just that it would carry more weight if he was leaving to go work at Burger King. Then you’d say “man that guy stands tall”. Edit: Ok reasonable criticism, I’ll withdraw.
I think that the idea that one must suffer to be valid is a way to ensure that no radical transformations of society take place, because in such a culture the most radical people can only be validated by dying.
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#100He’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.
I just don't agree that severing professional ties over political disputes is admirable. For society to function, people need to be willing to work with others whose politics they find distasteful.
Why? Nobody should hold the nose and bend over, especially people who have an easy choice.