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He called his original users dumb fucks and had multiple secret meetings with the U.S. administration that just literally tried to overthrow our (U.S.) democrac
by s5300 5y ago
He called his original users dumb fucks and had multiple secret meetings with the U.S. administration that just literally tried to overthrow our (U.S.) democracy.
Facebook has been successfully used for, and did not feel the need to intervene in, orchestrating genocide in other countries, IIRC - and this is before his secret meetings with aforementioned administration. Something something if it can happen somewhere it can happen where you are.
There are many other things, but those are the first to come to mind that would make me want to have absolutely nothing to do with him. Do you not care about other humans and civil society? If so, Zuck may be for you, but not I.
> I don't think there's anyone who I would outright refuse to work with just based on their negative public reputation.
Many successful SWE's and hiring managers have publicly and anonymously discussed not wanting to work with or hire previous Facebook devs based on morals and ethics of business, not even mentioning Zuck. Are they just trying to virtue signal and act woke? I don't know.
- gjs278 5y agolol there was no attempted overthrow. go back to /r/politics
- reissbaker 5y agoCarmack is a libertarian who has previously supported Republican candidates, and used to work for Palmer Luckey, who was an outright MAGA supporter (unlike Zuckerberg, who claims to dislike Trump) — and aside from that, having meetings with Trump when he was President without inviting journalists into the room is something plenty of businesses did. I don't think Carmack is going to be thrown off by the Trump meetings. If anything, Zuck is probably a better owner for Oculus from a political standpoint than Luckey was.
- mavhc 5y ago> He called his original users dumb fucks and had multiple secret meetings with the U.S. administration that just literally tried to overthrow our (U.S.) democracy. So like every other large company then. "We connected people together and it turned out 1% of them are assholes" > Are they just trying to virtue signal and act woke? I don't know. Yes, is signalling your virtues and acting .. "aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially in racial and other social justice issues"... bad?
- wiseowise 5y ago> Yes, is signalling your virtues and acting .. "aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially in racial and other social justice issues"... bad? If it harms others, then yes. Just yesterday I read about lawsuit where white male was fired to hire two females. Which is a direct consequence of diversity virtue signaling.
- mavhc 5y agoSo they harmed 1 person and helped 2 people? Seems great overall. Also as you're talking about humans, probably use "man" and "women", otherwise you sound like... someone who would complain about people being woke.
- wiseowise 5y ago> Are they just trying to virtue signal and act woke? Yes.