This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Now we're doing headlines like this with tech companies in addition to politicians? These fuckers act with impunity because they can.
For some reason, it appears the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.
What would it take for people to consider not looking at Instagram and Facebook? A feed full of snuff videos?
“Total Chaos” feels a bit overblown…
You know what would be an effective 'protest'? If employees started deleting important files...
Sorry, I can't tell if you're serious or not.
It's extremely unlikely that facebook has in place a system that allows any lowly engineer to cause such damage alone. No hard drive hosting unique files no one else has, without backups, without security, and so on.
If you're a billion dollar corp that depends on an important recipe to make your product, you're not leaving the only copy of it on front desk with no oversight.
I don't see how deleting files would work as a form of protest. Would probably get you in trouble, though.
Unionize tech and then it can happen.
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all
Well, yeah, if tech workers unionized, maybe they'd have some leverage. Let's hope they get to that before the next absurd move from big tech? Fingers crossed, 143rd time's the charm.
Okay, so what are employees doing? The title says "employees protest", by "protest" do they mean "complain but continue to follow orders"? Because that's basically the norm for any job.
Its amazing how quickly these assholes have dropped any sort of facade they were keeping up towards their public image. At best they are doing whatever they think will get them the most money, more realistically they actually support this regressive bullshit. As a non-American I am so pissed at what a good portion of that country has voted for and those that stayed home instead of preventing this.
The oligarchs have paid their tithe to king Trump and feel like they are immune to consequences. So far they have been correct.
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.
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.
Something something 1930's Germany.
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.
I think "thought it was a great idea to hand over the power [...] to private companies" is a misrepresentation. Some moderation was better than no moderation, but obviously "the political left"would have preferred regulation rather than self regulation.
What's the point you're making? That nothing should have been done?
Seriously, this is how the media is spinning this? "Facebook now allows people to post that LGBT people are mentally ill"?
The default behavior of any social media platform is to allow people to say anything they want. That's what social media is for, to allow people to talk to each other. The things it doesn't allow are, and ought to be, exceptions. Facebook has now decided that one of these exceptions will be slightly loosened. I somehow fail to see the big deal in this.
The paradox of tolerance is you have to be intolerant to intolerance
The default behavior of any social media platform is to allow people to say anything they want.
False, moderation has existed since literally the beginning.
That doesn't contradict what I'm saying ("default behavior"), and also moderation is different from censorship.
ok buddy
You are an idiot.(*)
(*)See anything wrong with that statement? Think an order of magnitude worse and directed at minorities who already are targeted with hate, and you have te reason why such policies must exist.
I wasn't actually expressing a substantive opinion on whether this policy change of Meta's is a good thing or bad thing. The rules there are as arbitrary as anywhere else on the Internet; this slight shift does not make much of a difference.
But moderation is different from censorship: if you (or I or anyone else) do not want to read people writing about LGBT people being mentally ill, or calling me an idiot (and I certainly don't, most of the time), or literally making any statement at all in the world, then none of us should have to. That doesn't mean people who want to say these things to each other (necessarily) need to be prevented from saying them to each other; there are arguments for that too, but it's a different issue.
