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> I personally know and have previously worked with some of the people who work on trust and safety, specifically for kids. Good people who have kids of their o
by mbesto 5y ago
> I personally know and have previously worked with some of the people who work on trust and safety, specifically for kids. Good people who have kids of their own and who care about protecting people, especially children.
Those same people are protecting their children with $300k+ salaries and buying property in area where they can send their children to Gunn HS. While I empathize with these people the direct opportunity to protect your kin should not be understated. Do they mean well? Sure. Are they putting their best effort to fix things? Sure.
Here's the most important part:
Do you they know deep down inside that the only way to fix these things is to hurt Facebook financially? Probably. But they also know this means risking to protect their own children as a result (forced to move, lose job, less pay, etc.). What would you do? (I think I know the answer)
This can't be understated any further - in the end it doesn't matter what individual people at FB think because no one person or group of people has any legal, economical, or logistical ability to control the company except Mark Zuckerberg. He is figuratively and literally impossible to fight. Well, unless everyone deleted their accounts.
- vineyardmike 5y ago> Do you they know deep down inside that the only way to fix these things is to hurt Facebook financially? Probably. The crazy thing is that FB has taken steps to improve things in past that also hurt them financially (eg post cambridge analytica) . They just make so much money and so fast that its like 1 or 2 bad quarters and its over. So (1) mark being all powerful means he alone can decide its worth lower profits - he's done it before. (2) The loss of profits probably wouldn't even matter.
- sorry_outta_gas 5y agoWithout all the bullshit facebook is just AOL messanger and a group calandar, they need it people need to interact with facebook non-stop for it to remain relavant
- ashtonkem 5y agoI also wonder how many of them forbid their children from using Facebook’s products.