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There's a lot of rationales you can give, but the real answer is that banning Facebook would cause Google to miss their quarterly earnings. Many people are wil
by dcolkitt 6y ago
There's a lot of rationales you can give, but the real answer is that banning Facebook would cause Google to miss their quarterly earnings.
Many people are willing to take a stand for their beliefs, many fewer are willing to nuke their RSUs.
- nip180 6y agoNuking your RSUs will also make an enemy of every other person in your company with RSUs. You might not be fired, but you’ll likely lose most of your social capital at the company.
- smolder 6y agoJust in case anyone is left wondering, RSU stands for restricted stock unit.
- sneak 6y agoWhat do you mean by "nuking"?
- syndacks 6y agodevaluing
- nip180 6y agoTaking an action that will directly result in a decrease in stock value.
- ForHackernews 6y agoIn this context, perhaps reducing by 3-5%. For example, instead of getting $300,000 an engineer might only get $285,000.
- mumblemumble 6y agoI suspect the real real answer is that Google would summon an enormous shitstorm of antitrust action down on their heads if they even thought about kicking their biggest domestic competitor in the ad space out of the app store.
- mainstreem 6y agoHow is it that this is the case but Amazon and Twitter aren't facing antitrust action for teaming up against Parler? Amazon protects a huge account and the huge account takes down a competitor.
- caminocorner 6y agoCan Facebook violate any TOS and not get kicked off because of antitrust? They could justify it to a court, because "Facebook incubated the insurrection" or "Facebook broke our rules" not because "we don't like enabling our competitors".
- tharne 6y agoThat's true. At least in the U.S. anti-trust laws require you to show that the company engaged in certain actions with the _intent_ of creating a monopoly.
- mumblemumble 6y agoFor the purposes of making a decision like this, justifiability in court seems like a relatively remote worry. The shitstorm itself, I'm guessing, would be the more immediate concern. Few people in a position to make a decision like this would have neutral feelings about the prospect of a swarm of federal investigators giving them the white collar equivalent of a body cavity examination in order to suss out whether their intentions were pure.
- e_y_ 6y agoApple disabled both Facebook and Google's iOS enterprise certificates because they were using them to collect data from external participants in violation of the ToS, although that wasn't the main app. And the access was restored once they took down the offending apps. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18206020/apple-facebook-internal-ios-apps-restores-enterprise-certificate https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18206020/apple-facebook-i... If the violations were serious enough, I think Apple/Google would consider some kind of temporary shutdown for the Facebook app if they thought they could weather the PR storm.
- uncrex 6y ago> banning Facebook would cause Google to miss their quarterly earnings how exactly?
- kridsdale1 6y agoUsers love Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp. If Google took action, the only thing that would happen would be the world now referring to their Android devices as broken, and iPhones are "The one with Instagram".
- JPKab 6y agoAgreed. To me parler is like a cult. It's small enough where nobody can pretend it's religion. Facebook is like Scientology, they got big enough and rich enough to where they could influence the proper people and get the free pass.