Comment by Lio
6 years ago
> Facebook is quietly helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group to battle Washington
> The employee noted that many Facebook team members are now questioning the moral compass of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.
At some point you need to look at the skull emblems on your uniform and ask yourself, "Hans, are we the baddies?".
IMHO I've never heard one of these stories where I thought Facebook was doing the right thing. Not once.
> IMHO I've never heard one of these stories where I thought Facebook was doing the right thing. Not once.
It's almost like the media is pushing some kind of narrative here against an entity they compete with.
Doesn't make a lot of sense. Unlike traditional blogs, Facebook isn't exactly a place that's creating rival news content. If anything, FB helps spread the news by being a platform for people to post articles and stories.
> If anything, FB helps spread the news by being a platform for people to post articles
You could see how that would lead to problems when that become the main driver of traffic. If tomorrow Mark decides to remove the share button, it would be the end of a lot of traditional media sources.
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It's my general impression that the ones who say "Don't worry, we care about you" ARE the baddies, they're not aligned with their own public image (why? I don't know, they should be, maybe they can't overcome their own egos). The ones you should be trusting are the ones who go "Don't trust me, but these are my principles"
Isn’t that the equivalent of the New Yorker cartoon with the wolf saying “I will eat you” and the sheep saying “I like him because he tells it like it is”?