It is a shame this was flagged. This is a conversation that is needed. Culling all political discussion is not what today's hackers need.
Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
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#22Seems kind of a bit much.
I don't know what mark's true beliefs are. For all i know maybe his actions are ernest. I feel we need more than this to subscribe him a coward.
Someone doing something you disagree with, or even being straight up evil, is not the same thing as being a coward.
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#23Agreed with the cowardice. But I think it worked both ways. It was pretty clear that Facebook (and a lot of other industries) also took on a lot of practices that they clearly didn't believe in either. DEI was taken up performatively for political reasons. We cannot be upset when it is removed performatively for political reason.
And we have to be honest that these programs were largely failures. Fact checking especially. Even performatively, these companies took on pretty big responsibilities, only garnered more criticism and controversy, gained nothing, and after years of plugging away had no light at the end of the tunnel.
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#25A poorly conceived and generic article.
If he has a malignancy (if), it is greed not fear. And with that fact clear, the whole article makes no sense.
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#27It is a shame this was flagged. This is a conversation that is needed. Culling all political discussion is not what today's hackers need.
It's not surprising when you consider HN is full of temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires
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#28> All that power, all those resources, all that potential influence - and he uses it to make himself smaller
This is what I find most incomprehensible. These people really do have the power to do whatever they want and still have enough money to retire comfortably a thousand times over. And this is what they choose to do.
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#29> This man is a coward. This man is a CEO. If you mistook him as something else then you simply fell victim to clever marketing. (See: Elon Musk) > Power corrupts, but cowardice corrupts more completely. What are they cowarding from? Could it not be power itself? Perhaps your analysis is too focused on the object of your anger and has devolved into printed bile. As a result it lacks any forward value.
you have to wonder if there's a limit to the things people, companies, CEOs, shareholders will do to satiate their greed if only for the sake of the public good
there are limits to the things some people will do to satiate their greed, but if you are a billionaire you've already demonstrated there is not
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#30It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
As a European observer, it's been an interesting lesson in how much power and sway the US presidency is invested with, despite ostensibly existing in a system that is less centralized and puts more power (and elected offices) at the state level than our flavor of democracies. You may not be able to bend the will of state officials, but if you can bend the will of national-level companies this easily, "the Feds" are e…
Since the 1950s, more and more power has been claimed by the executive, sometimes as a consequence of legislature dysfunction, more often by unchecked supremacy clause execution.
The US was envisioned to look a lot more like the EU. The US Civil War required a stronger federal response, and unfortunately reconstruction failed to sufficiently address the primary economic differences in industrialization, resulting in deep geographical divides.
Further propaganda machines set up by one party due to embarrassment over Nixon's resignation has resulted in one effective party; the other is primarily controlled by corporations.