Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
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Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#2Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077359
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#3It feels like you have to squint fairly hard at this point to continue to see Facebook in the same terms that they define themselves as just being interested in "presenting the marketplace of ideas".
This seems to be the latest in a pretty long series of actions that seem contrary to that idea and that something else might be the real motivating factor.
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#4I saw this yesterday. There were a shocking number of people bringing up and defending people like James Damore, the misogynist Google memo guy who guest starred on white power podcasts like Stefan Molyneux's. I don't like to be an an echo chamber, but I feel like praising that sort of thing is definitely in the relm of "far right" and makes me wonder if that's the sort of people HN is attracting?
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#5It feels like you have to squint fairly hard at this point to continue to see Facebook in the same terms that they define themselves as just being interested in "presenting the marketplace of ideas". This seems to be the latest in a pretty long series of actions that seem contrary to that idea and that something else might be the real motivating factor.
"CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF FACEBOOK, INC. ARTICLE III: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law."
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512...
Facebook is no different than any other Delaware corporation. Facebook exists to do anything and everything that will profit its shareholders. Everything else is just PR.
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#6I saw this yesterday. There were a shocking number of people bringing up and defending people like James Damore, the misogynist Google memo guy who guest starred on white power podcasts like Stefan Molyneux's. I don't like to be an an echo chamber, but I feel like praising that sort of thing is definitely in the relm of "far right" and makes me wonder if that's the sort of people HN is attracting?
I see you're already getting downvoted?
It's funny because the same people who support James Damore are also anti unionizing which would give them a stronger voice....
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#7It is mildly off-topic, but it is not intended to derail this conversation. Did anyone else notice that Buzzfeednews and Yahoo news gotten somewhat decent ( as in, Yahoo actually had an in-depth analysis that wasn't all talking points ).
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#8It sounds like the issue is that fact-checkers are being overridden sometimes when they flag right-wing news sources. I think that if you asked a right-wing person, they would tell you that many of these fact-checker organizations have a distinct left-wing bias. Maybe they (the fact-checkers) aren’t infallible and get it wrong sometimes?
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#9I saw this yesterday. There were a shocking number of people bringing up and defending people like James Damore, the misogynist Google memo guy who guest starred on white power podcasts like Stefan Molyneux's. I don't like to be an an echo chamber, but I feel like praising that sort of thing is definitely in the relm of "far right" and makes me wonder if that's the sort of people HN is attracting?
Molyneux most definitely is an extremist, some choice quotes from the SPLC:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
It's got nothing to do with echo chambers. The response to his memo might have been a little overblown, but anyone who associates with someone like Molyneux makes quite clear where they stand.
>makes me wonder if that's the sort of people HN is attracting?
I'm not sure about HN, but there's a pretty large subculture of hyper-reactionary stuff in tech around Curtis Yarvin, Thiel, and so on that's been seeping into mainstream communities for ages.
Re: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
#10I saw this yesterday. There were a shocking number of people bringing up and defending people like James Damore, the misogynist Google memo guy who guest starred on white power podcasts like Stefan Molyneux's. I don't like to be an an echo chamber, but I feel like praising that sort of thing is definitely in the relm of "far right" and makes me wonder if that's the sort of people HN is attracting?
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