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Sheryl Sandberg to Leave Meta Platforms Board After 12 Years
- SethTro 3y agohttps://archive.is/TH2Pr https://archive.is/TH2Pr
- greatpostman 3y ago[flagged]
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- SirensOfTitan 3y agoI worked at Facebook for five years, and I think most would say that Facebook would not be nearly as successful without her. She’s an incredibly skilled operator, and her departure is a big loss for Meta.
- mc32 3y agoThen that means it’s a big gain for the population of the world and she could not have left soon enough. I hope mark finds himself rudderless and meanders the company into a whirlpool,
- dylan604 3y ago> Then that means it’s a big gain for the population of the world and she could not have left soon enough. How do you come to that conclusion? It's not like just because she's gone means that Meta will stop doing anything that she implemented. She could leave and Meta changes nothing about what they do, and there would be 0 gain for the "population of the world" that you seem think will happen. > I hope mark finds himself rudderless and meanders the company into a whirlpool, As if. The Zuck will find someone else to lead, and our luck it will be someone with even less self control or care about the users than the person leaving. Sometimes, the devil you know is much more preferable to the devil that could come after. We can see how well either of our comments age though
- 0max 3y agoI'd be glad to see the data cap loopholes they've negotiated with overseas telcos get their contracts canceled and not renewed
- dylan604 3y agoAgain, just because Sandberg isn't there means that the army of lawyers that actually do this kind of work will cease to do that work? The logic just doesn't flow
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- pfisherman 3y agoReally?! She is one of the people most directly responsible for building Facebook into a massive surveillance / influence / control monstrosity and monetizing their abuses of their user base; and your problem with her is that she is an unabashed feminist?!
- akira2501 3y agoPerhaps it's that she's cynically wrapped herself in these values publicly in order to climb the ladder but then immediately turns around and acts in a way that's entirely incongruous with these stated values. The somewhat bothersome part is other people unknowingly take her seriously and promulgate seemingly popular false virtues to the determent of everyone.
- pfisherman 3y agoDon’t discount people’s capacity for self deception. We all want to be the hero of our own story. In any event we are judged by the totality of our actions, not a subset of our beliefs. Hitler was a vegetarian who wanted to ban smoking.
- verve_rat 3y agoAnd, you do have to give it to him... he did kill Hitler.
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- seydor 3y agoobviously wrong, however the media seems to have given her a carte blanche because she brandished that feminist agenda. Never remember reading a bad review of her in major media. It's really remarkable
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- ks2048 3y agoIs being hostile to “feminism” a good business decision? The wealthiest companies on earth practice the same form of feminism as Sandberg.
- redwood 3y agoFeminism is the radical notion that women are people.
- samtheprogram 3y ago“Feminism” is a whole lot more than a single notion, it’s also several movements over a hundred years old. I think in this case GP is referring to fourth-wave feminism.
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- smoldesu 3y ago...to a man, then?
- fullshark 3y agoI get not liking the Lean In stuff, but I fail to see how it objectively hurt Meta. Seemed to be great for its "brand." What are you referring to with this drive by comment?
- sciencesama 3y agoFinally !!
- croemer 3y agowhy?
- randycupertino 3y agoI read her book and it had stupid sexist advice, for one thing. It was like, "if you want a raise, blame your husband! tell them 'My husband needs me to make more money' and other out of touch suggestions like "get a nanny so you can take off and go to conferences" and if you're overwhelmed at home to hire a housekeeper. Just overall was poorly written, full of name dropping to her celeb gal pals (did you know she is friends with Oprah, Ariana Huffington, Maria Shriver, Kelly Ripa and Hilary Clinton??!) and self-promotional.
- moshun 3y agoI’ve worked with her directly and she’s a hell of a lot smarter than most executives I’ve ever had to deal with. You may not like her book, but there’s a lot of good reasons she has the complex and impressive legacy on tech that she has.
- Dracophoenix 3y agoWhat was she like in person? Any particular situation that stand out?
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- jxi 3y agoI agree, but there's an army of bots that will vote down and try to silence any points like this. I simply don't use anything related to Meta and tell others to do the same.
- ignoramous 3y agoNow that she's leaning in to geo-politics, fully expect Sandberg to speak up against sexual violence as an act of oppression on Palestinian children in 3, 2, 1... https://www.savethechildren.net/news/stripped-beaten-and-blindfolded-new-research-reveals-ongoing-violence-and-abuse-palestinian https://www.savethechildren.net/news/stripped-beaten-and-bli...
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- bhouston 3y agoWhat percentage of the 10,000 children killed and 20,000 injured are Hamas terrorists? Do you have any citations or are you just making hypotheticals? Also currently 500,000 Gaza's are starving, that includes around 250,000 children. How many of them are Hamas terrorists? Do you have citations? https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/middleeast/gaza-famine-starvation-un-israel-war-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/middleeast/gaza-famine-starva...
- YZF 3y agoThe reporting about casualties from Gaza come from the Hamas. Are you seriously expecting them to let's say report that, donno, 25% of what they report as "children killed" are combatants? That is not a reasonable expectation. I think the reality is we don't know. We have a war in a densely populated area. Many civilians are killed as a result of waging a war in these situations (and given the refusal of civilians to leave when given warnings). A large portion of the population is likely under 18 because families have a lot of children. There is also a war being waged in the media and in social media where Israel seems to be losing. The actual facts of the matter and history for many of those commenting are not of great interest and the same points of argument are just repeated from whatever side you're arguing for. What do they say, truth is the first victim of war, or something like that. Re: the CNN article the source is the UN which is biased against Israel and they've been saying starvation basically since a week into the war (e.g. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-21-2023-7d9718b32bf0d308c44c7c9e3c4e0deb https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-21-2023-... ). The UN isn't just biased but they're also not free to operate inside Gaza so they're really unable to report accurately even if they weren't biased. Who is "The UN"? It's China, it's Syria, it's North Korea, it's Iran, it's Russia, it's Saudi Arabia, etc. I have not seen photos from Gaza that look like those in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation The children in the CNN article don't look "starved". I don't doubt there is hunger and suffering but what we're seeing is mostly the weaponizing of their suffering against Israel to serve an agenda. Getting Israel to stop "its" war and allow Hamas to emerge as the winner of the conflict. Just to be clear, the civilian population of Gaza should get access to food, as much as possible while a war is raging. However the motivation for many of the reports is primarily to attack and de-legitimize Israels' war. The casualty situation is similar, it is expected that in this kind of war there would be very high civilian casualties. The point of the critics is simply that Israel has no right to wage war to protect its citizens, i.e. it is not allowed to use violent means as a response to an attack on its citizens or to secure their lives. The criticism has been consistent since day 1 of this war when Palestinian casualties were significantly lower. When Israel warned Palestinians to move away from areas it was going to attack the UN declared that's impossible and even actively encouraged population to stay in targeted areas. The elected government of Gaza, Hamas, has the most control over the condition of the Palestinians, and also bear the responsibility for the suffering of that population, from their decision to attack Israel to how they continue to wage the war till today. Egypt and the UN also bear some responsibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_by_Palestinian_militant_groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_b... https://www.dci-palestine.org/child_recruitment https://www.dci-palestine.org/child_recruitment https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mde150352004en.pdf https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mde150... https://www.newsweek.com/hamas-using-child-soldiers-add-it-their-list-war-crimes-opinion-1859652 https://www.newsweek.com/hamas-using-child-soldiers-add-it-t...
- nvr219 3y agoIf you were Zuck and you could fill this seat who would you pick
- jareklupinski 3y ago(in this voice: https://youtu.be/TmVYfQX4xRE?t=2 https://youtu.be/TmVYfQX4xRE?t=2) Me!
- linhns 3y agoZuck himself
- dostick 3y agoJulian Assange
- SeanAnderson 3y agoI'd apologize to Carmack for limiting his ability to influence the direction of Quest and try to lure him to the board and away from AGI. Not that I think Carmack would go for that, but if Meta wants VR to thrive then I think elevating John to a position to orchestrate everything is the way to go.
- thinkingkong 3y agoIm pretty sure thats not what boards care about.
- SeanAnderson 3y agoYou want to elaborate on what you feel boards do then? I feel they help set strategy and oversee management, but hopefully in a hands-off way where they let the CEO do their thing unless numbers aren't being met. It's a little awkward since Meta's structure prevents Zuck from being removed so the board isn't able to vote him out. So if they're merely acting as strategic advisors, and if Zuck is still gung-ho on metaverse, then yes absolutely I want John on the board.
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- seydor 3y agohistory will judge her