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Serious question: how should we as informed individuals act towards our friends/family that work at Facebook? Is it like working at Blackwater or Haliburton, i.
by dannykwells 8y ago
Serious question: how should we as informed individuals act towards our friends/family that work at Facebook? Is it like working at Blackwater or Haliburton, i.e. worthy of scorn or st least distance ? Or do we accept them and not talk about it and just have a nice time, even though they are actively undermining democracy as we speak?
- baroffoos 8y agoI talked to a guy working at facebook and he just insisted its not actually that bad and nothing shady is going on. He clarified that nothing shady meant nothing that the public doesn't already know.
- triplewipeass 8y agoSelf-delusion is a helluva drug.
- dannykwells 8y agoI mean, was that guy Zuck? Because I would guess that every engineer at Facebook wasn't aware of all of the shady stuff before it broke. Personally, I'm guessing that much more of this is to come. Plus, shady is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe it's legal to sell ads that undermine democracy in the West, lead to ethnic cleansing in Burma etc., but it doesn't mean it's not horrendous. And it's guaranteed there will be more examples like those until the platform is regulated (which it has to be imo).
- zepto 8y agoWorse than Blackwater because of the scale.
- dannykwells 8y agoYeah I think I tend to agree. But still not sure how to act.
- zepto 8y agoProbably no point in performing scorn, but on the other hand why not just be honest about what you think without being actually angry or rude?