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Comment by ALittleLight | Hacker News Reader

250 signatures on a letter at a company with 35,000 employees is an eruption of dissent?

I'm reminded of a quote about urban warfare, something like "In a city of 10 million, if 1% of the population opposes you, you have 100,000 adversaries." That seems to apply here.

0.7% of the company is writing to complain? Okay - what amount do you expect to complain? How many would complain about the opposite direction?

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Publicly stating your opposition to a contentious issue your company is facing isn't exactly an easy thing to do. Workplace marginalization is a real thing.

Don't you think workplace marginalization would cut the other way? If you have 250 people angry enough about this to leak to the press, imagine what they'd do to their fellow employees who oppose them.

It's pretty common at Facebook. Andrew Bosworth repeatedly writes about the importance of malcontents, and there are many employees who repeatedly push back on leadership. This takes place almost entirely on Workplace.

I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. This is correct.

I've never worked somewhere where challenging leadership is so encouraged.

This piece is a repeat of a strategic smear, for the obvious reason that more Republicans and moderates can be reached through Facebook than Democrats, so if they pressure Facebook into not running political ads, they win a bit, and if they use the process abusively, they win also.

You can tell by the way this issue was raised when Zucc was at Congress the other day: AOC just sat there spouting incoherent nonsense that could be cut into soundbites, and was 100% uninterested in Mark's clear answers to her non-questions. This one is entirely about framing.

The media went after Facebook when they started losing all that sweet money to them. Current political situation was an icing on the cake for them, as much as I despise Zuck and FB (I find their business model to be vile), it's more than obvious the media has a strong agenda and really are after them, no matter what Zuck or FB does.

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