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What exactly are you asking people to do here? See an article about Facebook, the company, and not post it because it may result in people saying mean things in
by gfodor 8y ago
What exactly are you asking people to do here? See an article about Facebook, the company, and not post it because it may result in people saying mean things in the comments about the people who work there?
Facebook's behavior and the recent interest in covering it by the media surfaces the many ethical issues we, as hackers, have a responsibility to confront head-on in our industry and frankly includes things many people have been warning about happening for decades. These articles about the negative impacts (intentional or otherwise) of the software systems that Facebook has created are the very definition of Hacker News.
- throwawaymath 8y agoI'm not the commenter you're replying to, but I would personally ask folks to not post these kinds of articles. In contrast I like the recent NYTimes piece, "Delay, Deny, Deflect" about Facebook. But this? This isn't news. Do you know how many patents Facebook has? Do you know how many it - or any other large tech company - has that would form the basis of a similar article? What are we getting out of this? It's not like we didn't know they have these kinds of patents. Go look at Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple's patents.
- ilovecaching 8y agoThere's been four or five articles on Facebook posted today, most of which were NYT hit pieces. The comments are just mud slinging. It's not brave to call something evil over and over again with no one to rebuttable, and with no provided evidence. It's not the hacker way to berate any technology we don't agree with without considering the alternatives and positives of said technology. That's hacker amateur hour.