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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.
It is kind of a red line. First theyre going after trans people. Why do you think you hear about it every day now? It gets the hate machine going for people other than our rulers
That first appears to be skipping over a whole lot of people who've been getting fucked for a long time.
I know their longest tenured employee. Ran into them after 20 yrs... Different human. Nothing behind her eyes.
Others that have been there from 5 to 15 yrs..
Boiled frogs at different stages. (Yes, I know the science is debunked for literal frogs.)
What I don't know, living in SV, is a single human that's started a new job with them in the last.. 5? 10? yrs.. at this point it's all younger people who only know a world with Meta. And this is all normal to them.
It’s not just transphobia in these changes. You are also allowed to say that women should be/are property.
Facebook has a history of facilitating genocide (Indonesia, Myanmar). It’s clear that if it starts in the US, Facebook will be happy to help.
So as long as the genocide is far away, is completely acceptable for its employees to work there?
Nah, it was fucked up then too.
It makes sense that US politics would be the straw that would break the camels back for most Facebook employments - I don’t think your average tech worker is too familiar with the violence organized on Facebook by Hindu nationalists, the crimes against the Rohingya etc… a lot of that was with foreign language content moderation, so I can see people reasonably not knowing.
It is genuinely terrifying though. I’m already living in a fascist state and have gone through hell; I don’t know if I’ll get to survive another term of Trump.
He answered the Trump signal, walked in and plop down one mil on the man's desk. Now he's following the Russian handbook for censorship.
There is a vast chasm between not doing a good enough job reining in your sensors and publicly openly declaring hate speech acceptable
For many, I imagine it's just the straw that broke the camel's back
Well, Frances Haugen left a while ago. Some people did go.
And, well, the best time to leave Facebook was to never join. The second best time is now.
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.
Nah Meta is widely regarded as one of the best employers in the world. I'd take 300k/usd year and all of the benefits too. Let's stop pretending that traditional companies are somehow better so you either don't work for any corporation or actually work for one that provides incredibly benefits to you so you have the luxury to give back and steer the ship towards good a little bit.
Personally, I wouldn't but this is the reasoning most employees have when joining Meta.
No I understand that they pay very well what I'm saying is it just seemed odd that you would go to work for such a company without knowing that you were essentially walking with the devil.
If you make peace with that then absolutely fine, but it then seems a bit odd to turn around and be suddenly offended by something as if they hadn't already been doing stuff like that all along.
lolwut
They pay a lot, but everyone knows they're overworked like hell. Meta is a shit-tier employer, but if you're a young masochist then they're worth a few years to pad your accounts.
Same with Apple. They pay a lot and it looks fantastic on your resume. Even though in reality the likelihood is that the job you did was basically the same as it would be in any other company, but Apple prestige is a thing.
Please note - 99% of the time on the internet, when someone says "in the wuuurld" they mean "In this one capitalist hellhole country" so in this case it may be correct
Expanding on to your comment:
“In my very limited experience, in my tiny portion of the world, that I may have never left.”
Unless a person has vast experience and has had deep conversations with thousands of people, we as humans just don’t have the ability to appreciate just how radically different life experiences are for people we share the same block with.
Nice try, Zuckerberg...
OK Meta HR...
But what is your mobility as one of its workers? What other social networks can they begin working for realistically in such a small market? Maybe that's the way to fight against Zuckerberg's and Musk's attempts to turn their networks into propaganda tools for the highest bidder, to encourage disgruntled workers to start their own social networks and then go support them as well. I would seriously consider paying for an adequately moderated ActivityPub alternate that truly respected its users, was truly transparent, focuses on high quality content, and prevented brigade agenda pushing.
I don't know if they use activityPub but open source Facebook equivalence do exist.
I know because me and my friend thought we were onto a great idea with "social networks as a protocol" but it turns out that it already existed. For some reason it just doesn't seem to have taken off in the same way that Mastodon has, not that Mastodon itself is that successful (look at its numbers compared to Blue Sky).