It's ironic that these people who consider or signal(if you're cynical) virtue through their jobs completely ignore the larger picture.
Facebook is a cesspool which wants to lock people in the web into a single monopoly. And worse it is to prey on the users attention by dealing cognitive equivalent of drug hits.
Where were these woke engineers when Zuck tried to push his drug into developing nations in ruse of "free internet", or inumerable other breach of user trust and privacy dor sake of more profit?
Its inexcusable that when you're working in a fundamentally immoral/ammoral organization, you try to signal virtue hard. Its like a foot soldier in a mob teaching ethics lessons when cleaning blood off his shoes. Better to be honest
about where you get your pay than be "holier than thou".
How far have we gone from the light of visionaries like Alan Kay and others who paved foundation to the web and computing, who wanted technology to magnify the intellect ...
Facebook is a cesspool which wants to lock people in the web into a single monopoly. And worse it is to prey on the users attention by dealing cognitive equivalent of drug hits.
Where were these woke engineers when Zuck tried to push his drug into developing nations in ruse of "free internet", or inumerable other breach of user trust and privacy dor sake of more profit?
Its inexcusable that when you're working in a fundamentally immoral/ammoral organization, you try to signal virtue hard. Its like a foot soldier in a mob teaching ethics lessons when cleaning blood off his shoes. Better to be honest about where you get your pay than be "holier than thou".
How far have we gone from the light of visionaries like Alan Kay and others who paved foundation to the web and computing, who wanted technology to magnify the intellect ...