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I really wonder what good they have done. All of their initiatives are self-serving. And at the end of the day, no amount of good they do will ever make up for
by rglullis 6y ago
I really wonder what good they have done. All of their initiatives are self-serving. And at the end of the day, no amount of good they do will ever make up for all the damage they cause to their users. I am not even talking about the American politics, just the amount of psyops tricks to get people engaged and addicted to the platform, manipulation of one's sense of wellbeing, the social anxiety they cause. They make Big Tobacco look like saints.
As for "being a great place to work" or "the tech": how much of soul-less drone one has to be to look at all this shit and still think "but the tech is cool and they pay really well!"?
- nefitty 6y agoCigarette smoking causes about 480,000 deaths per year in the US alone. Does Facebook have a body count?
- anshumankmr 6y agoYes, when you consider the people killed by its spreading of fake news, anti vax etc. For example, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-destroyed-village-lynchings-rainpada-india https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/whatsapp-de.... However that being said, if I got an opportunity to work at FB, I would.
- rglullis 6y agoIs the best defense for Facebook that they don't have a body count? RIAA/MPAA does not have a body count. Patent trolls do not have a body count. Ballmer's Microsoft did not have a body count. "Not having a body count" is quite a low bar for a moral compass, don't you think?
- LandR 6y agoFacebook almost certainly has a body count!