Comment by NavinF
2 years ago
...by doing what? FB is one of the largest employers of people on this site. If you ran a poll, I'd expect the majority to answer "no" to your question. Of the people who answered "yes", I bet the majority would still accept an offer from FB if it was just 20k more than the next best offer.
One small example: In 2012 Facebook emotionally manipulated people in the name of science without anybody's consent by controlling positive / negative posts on their news feed.
Right? Wrong? Discuss.
Textbook case of unethical conduct of research. The key here is lack of informed consent by the study participants.
The APA put out a press release about this study violated their code of ethics.
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/06/informed-con...
I can't put any facebook developer in the same bucket as a guard at a concentration camp.
Because a concentration camp guard would be jailed or killed for refusing service, but a FB dev would lose a few $thousand in opportunity?
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I think that was wrong. At the same time, drawing lines of good/bad at the boundaries of the people working at facebook is, imo, not useful.
https://xkcd.com/1390/
I don't see the issue. Every social media site does this, FB was just naive enough to share their research
The issue is the lack of informed consent. This is pretty basic ethical conduct of research stuff.
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And this just proved my point. During the Nazi regime, everyone was hating the jews. And everyone was doing fascism.
Now to bring this to a close, people like you, who will jump companies for 20_000 and have lost the ability to see a clear ethical violation will be holding the guns and guarding the gas chambers when the next Hitler comes along. Meditate on this.
Also this XKCD is dumb. Previously the feed was chronological post of friends which was definitely more ethical. But of course that didn't make people addicted enough.
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