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LOL welcome to corporate America. The only reason they paid lip service to causes like you mention is because it was temporarily a pathway to more profit. Now that Trump is in office (or nearly so, anyway) they have read the room and realized these beliefs are actually a liability now. So, surprise! They dropped em like a rock in the pursuit of more profits. Never never never trust a corporation to do the right thing. They sometimes accidentally do it in the pursuit of profits, but tying your hopes and dreams to a large corporation is a foolish plan. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU THEY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY IN YOUR WALLET.

That's not at all amazing. What's amazing is that a large number of people thought it was a great idea to hand over the power to decide what's true or not to private companies. When they rolled out this "content moderation" used mostly against Trump the political left was beside itself with joy. I remember the taunts of "haha it's a private company, they can publish whatever they want." So incredibly stupid and short sighted.

Yeah, it is absolutely crazy how much the tide has shifted with trump’s reelection. These so-called “woke” companies (it was always performative, but they performed for the more just side) have all turned 180 and dropped to their knees to kiss the ring.

And this is because of the very real feeling that trump will abuse his power and unconstitutionally stay in office. The guardrails seem to have come down, and these fuckers are rushing to get on the fascist’s good side.

That should alarm everyone, so I’ll say it again: these companies are positioning themselves on the side of fascism because they don’t think we can stop them anymore. They are making business decisions that bolster fascists because there’s a fuckin dollar in it.

With the power of these fucking megacorps behind the fascist movement, it’s like sticking a rocket engine on its ass.

Ok there i go for the downvotes... Where there are people with which I disagree there is always confusion about everything, if you dont think or do things like they do they start scream and protest all the time. Thats why they are getting behind, the majority of people (the silent ones; like us) are tired of the constant whining

… We are above the fray. It is the they’s and them’s causing all the problem and doing all the complaining. This post isn’t the exact whining I’m talking about I promise. We us’s are just doing the lord’s work and never complaining.

Not just social issues.

It's easier if people quit than you firing them.

So do shit like this so people "protest resign" and fill their positions with H1B's who can't resign because they'd be deported and take a fraction of the pay.

Resigning in protest is never a good idea.

Stay, obstruct, make them fire you.

Fuck the wind. Stand tall against the gale of hate

I'm not going to downvote you and assume this is a genuine question. You appear to be aware that calling someone "abnormal" would be considered insulting. If you support the idea that someone having different sexual preferences is their own business, why would you want to use these labels? If one person likes math and the other likes literature, would you call one or the other abnormal? We all deviate from the norm because there is no norm.

Other animals exhibit homosexuality, we're the only species to exhibit homophobia. That should tell you all you need to know about which behavior is abnormal.

Lots of evil is done by people who "just need to pay the bills"

With meta on your resume you can easily find employment or freelance. Tech people have widely applicable and desired skills. Hell they could even move to a non 3rd world country and be better off.

"Internal conversations and five people interviewed."

Let's be honest. For current employees, it's probably 10-100 times that. If my company did something controversial and then the press asked me for a reaction, I'd say "no comment" like it's my catch phrase. Unless you already have a job lined up (that can't be undone by "badmouthing your employer"), no one's being open and truthful.

Getting five employee accounts on record is impressive.

There is not a zero-risk of retaliation.

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

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

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.

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.

Zuck fully expects to take advantage of the H1B push President Musk is advocating for.