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reminder that managers and engineers promoted, developed, and shipped these changes at all of the companies listed in the article, knowing exactly how this chan

• musicale 6y ago
  This absolutely. There is so much software that implements malicious and unethical business practices: cheating employees, deceiving customers, violating privacy, etc.. Certainly designing and developing such systems violates the codes of ethics of professional societies such as the ACM and IEEE. Every time I encounter such a piece of software or read a story like this HN post, I think "who on earth would think that writing software like this is even remotely OK?" It's disappointing that there seem to be so many ethical lapses in our profession.
• bzb6 6y ago
  It’s only pathetic if you assume everybody in those organisations and roles share your political views but they didn’t have the balls to act on them. Whilst it’s possible that they don’t care or they disagree with you.
  • Twixes 6y ago
    That doesn't make their actions any less immoral. Acting immorally can still be condescendingly called pathetic.