Imagine this being your red line. Your totally prepared to work at Facebook, because there's absolutely nothing dodgy about that, but suddenly his transphobia is a problem.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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It’s ok to let their platform spread misinformation and hatred that affects millions, but it’s not OK when that comes back and bites them in the ass.
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I think community notes is a better form of moderation. And focusing on stopping the more extreme bad shit instead of thought crimes seems like a good thing too.
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LMAO, employees are about to find out why a union would be a good idea. Gotta speedrun growing class consciousness.
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feel free to be heroes and leak meta's source code before leaving.
That’s a bit like emptying the sewer into the street
Meta employees suddenly discovering their conscience is a bit rich.
Still, it's good to see there are people there who won't just go along with anything.
If you have a problem with it, organize a Facebook union. The only way small voices matter to CEOs are when they speak collectively.
if they weren't already organizing, I bet they are now. CWA has been receiving so many high quality leads for the last 2 years that they literally do not have enough dues-paying members to fund all of those campaigns. They're one of the largest unions in the US already.
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Good to know that there’s still some decent people there.
Anyone 'decent' there is a wage-slave that doesn't have an out. If you can leave meta and don't there's no decency there.
i think I've finally reached peak zuckerberg, i don't want to read one more thing about facebook or meta or whatever
Same. Luckily you can add his name to the block list.
He is going to be bare ass naked running down the halls screaming for employees to "come at me bro"
He'd probably win ngl.
I'm not glad that someone stood up for the billionaire.
But good for you ?
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Meta was already enabling genocide in third world countries and countless other things but this is what caused chaos. Those employees have weird priorities, huh?
[edit] reworded slightly on the account of caused controversy
The fact ur so heighly downvoted for saying this. Perfect example of weird priorities.
id say a good 80% of those downvotes are misunderstanding. something about the wording? idk. i thought they were talking about progressive folks getting outraged at first, not meta employees specifically. almost downvoted but caught my misunderstanding in time
Ah yes, the "old news theory"...
-They've done it already, why call them out again? It's old news.
While they escalate and continue to go full-on hate for profit.
i was with you at first but upon rethinking i do think it’s fair to note that there was little to no internal uproar in meta over the myanmar and othe situations. of course there was uproar outside meta. when they said “weird priorities” they meant from meta employees specifically—not progressive or leftist voices in general.
hope me describing my train of thoughts helps :)
- They haven't done "it" because it's a different thing
- OP did not say not to call it out again, simply ask us to consider why this thing caused more chaos than others
Not sure why you're being down voted, it's a fair point.
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Gee I wonder why he’s suddenly decided to start moving parts of the business to Texas… little Musk-ette over here…
All of this is very likely to kiss the ring of Herr Trump
All of this is very likely to kiss the ring of Herr Trump
Not likely, obviously.
That's Führer Trump to you, worm!
Unfortunately it's a very rational choice to cozy up to an incoming fascist dictator.
- Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp/Oculus
- Amazon
- Apple
- OpenAI
I am surprised myself, but making progress of not using their products. For example did not buy any gift via Amazon this Christmas.
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Man they’re not even doing the dog-whistle thing anymore, huh? Fucking disgusting, I hope he experiences the everlasting warmth of a car fire in the near future.
Maybe we blow up another Tesla.
If they don’t blow themselves up, that is.
Major props to those causing a ruckous internally there. That said, they likely fully expected a backlash and likely didn't care. Anyone who cares can be replaced by another sycophant, at a reduced salary even.
You get what you pay for. They'll be drawing from "the best of the rest" in a dwindling pool.
They pay well enough to get anyone who doesn't care about principles. Plenty people in tech like that.
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Nah, with Trump in office, he'll be delighted to hire in H1B slave labor ...
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