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Nobody is forced to work on anything. If you choose to work for a public platform, that should not automatically grant you authority to dictate what goes on it
by jaywalk 4y ago
Nobody is forced to work on anything. If you choose to work for a public platform, that should not automatically grant you authority to dictate what goes on it based on your own sensibilities.
- brookst 4y agoWhat? Are saying that the management at a public platform has an obligation to ignore what their employees want? That doesn’t sound great for retention. Or culture in general.
- sixQuarks 4y agouhhh, yes. Are you serious? That's not how companies work. A company is not there to cater to all the whims of employees, if it were, all profits would simply go to employee salaries.
- brookst 4y agoWhims, no. And you’re taking an absolutist position which is silly (“if a company won’t do business in South Africa because employees demand, they would obviously give all of their money to employees”) But companies can and do respond to larger concerns. Not because they’re moral animals but because it’s good business. And yes, it is harder to attract good talent running an old school “we take no responsibility for anything” business. I’ve turned down Facebook/Meta multiple times just because of their business practices. And they’re not that bad compared to the totally amoral platform you propose.
- sixQuarks 4y agoI would count employees wanting draconian censorship, which not everyone agrees with, to be a whim. Safe working conditions is not a whim, sexual harassment is not a whim. See the difference?