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A lot of devs just want to work on cool stuff, which FB has plenty of, and ignore "politics".
by ed312 8y ago
A lot of devs just want to work on cool stuff, which FB has plenty of, and ignore "politics".
- HillRat 8y agoThat’s the issue, innit? All the extremely cool tech is the prerequisite for the privacy-invading, democracy-busting, user-hostile, ethics-dismissing business model of the company. You can’t disentangle the “cool stuff” from the “bad stuff,” any more than a dev for the NSA plausibly can, and we as technologists have to grapple with the moral consequences of doing cool stuff for bad people. Or, to quote Tom Lehrer, "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? / “That's not my department" says Wernher von Braun
- paulcole 8y agoWhy is it that rich white guys are always the ones who want to ignore “politics”? Edit: Why downvote this?
- deogeo 8y agoIf your logic is that people at facebook want to ignore politics, perhaps you'd be better off directing your question at asians? Whites are 46% of facebook employees (underrepresented to the point of being a minority there), while asians are 41% (over-represented by a factor of ~4 vs. the general population): https://www.facebook.com/careers/diversity-report https://www.facebook.com/careers/diversity-report
- paulcole 8y agoAnecdotally, every time I've heard the phrase "I want to keep politics out of this," it's been uttered by some rich white dude. I don't see why Facebook would be any different.