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Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) pervert worked there. They didn't know about him, they weren't harboring him or anything, it's just a low level employee doing something inappropriate.

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Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

#52

The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) pervert worked there. They didn't know about him, they weren't harboring him or anything, it's just a low level employee doing something inappropriate.

true but its not exactly the first time : https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/27/14088862/cops-arrest-ocul...

Is there any large company without bad people? There was a guy on my floor that was fired when he was busted by the police for child porn. I didn’t know him, but I have to assume he isn’t the only one at a company with tens of thousands of employees.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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You present no evidence that this is true. You just fan the flames of outrage by assuming that a deleted post means a conspiracy. It seems far more likely that it was caught by a spam filter, or by a Reddit mod, or by a Reddit admin who mistook it for actual CP. The users in that thread are somehow outraged that a breaking news event is not receiving massive worldwide coverage despite a) it not being very important a…

It literally says "[Removed by Reddit]" and that "Reddit sometimes deletes posts that violate the site's content policy." I think maybe you're looking at the old version of reddit. On the new version, you can see the admin removal. Hmm, no, it shows up on the old version too. The reason I posted it is that it's interesting and new; I haven't ever seen Reddit admins manually delete a post before. Certainly not somethi…

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Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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The head of global community development is a low level employee?

> The head of global community development The article says "a head", not "the head", and refers to him as "manager of global community development". Of course I can't confirm this, but on one of the big Reddit threads on this topic an anonymous user claimed to be a Meta employee and looked this fella up, he managed 10 people. Just a low level people manager.

A manager of community development isn't even necessarily a people manager. That said, other people with a similar title at Facebook on LinkedIn do seem to be fairly experienced (although not really senior) so they may very well manage people.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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There aren't 60,000 employees who are the Head of Global Community Development. I'm not sure how far up the org chart that position is but I'm betting it's up in the top 1% of the company. It's not like this is the janitor or the person stocking the supply closet.

So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?

In case the downvotes are for language, "dick" is also slang for a detective, sometimes specifically a private investigator[0], which I infer the parent intended in their usage.

Which isn't to say it's never been used in a double entendre with its more common meaning. See, for instance, the theme to Shaft[1].

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-term-private-dick-for-a-pr...

[1] https://genius.com/Isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-lyrics

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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anyone have more info on the group that makes these videos ? seems like they make decoy accounts and pretend to be underage targets but would like to learn more about their process: are they legit or would it be equivalent to police entrapment ?

Fun fact: 99% of the people who think something is entrapment have no idea what "entrapment" means. If the cops leave a car running with the keys in it, and you steal it, that's not entrapment. If someone says in a forum "hey I'm 13 and I like dinosaurs" and you start messaging them about touching peepees and such: not entrapment. The cases involving entrapment and terrorism charges, for example, have been largely bu…

Here is a good example of legitimate entrapment from my province in Canada, matching your description very closely:

https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/16/14/2016bcsc1404.htm#Bo...

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Sometimes when HN resembles Reddit, it’s too funny to complain about.

as you can see, humor is not tolerated on HN (, unfortunately)

>as you can see, humor is not tolerated on HN (, unfortunately)

It is if it's funny.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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There aren't 60,000 employees who are the Head of Global Community Development. I'm not sure how far up the org chart that position is but I'm betting it's up in the top 1% of the company. It's not like this is the janitor or the person stocking the supply closet.

So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?

They already do; they've contracts with Pinkertons to undermine union organizing.
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