Facebook Employees Begin to Revolt
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Once Facebook realizes that they are losing good employees they are more likely to change those policies.
Unfortunately most Facebook employees want to continue getting outrageously paid at the 95 percentile of the market and soft "revolting" without risking their $$$. That tells a lot a bout their convictions.
You can't win a game without playing it, in other words.
Upper management, yeah, they might be able to effect change from within. But, even that is going to be severely limited in the face of a big-name founder like Zuckerberg.
Managers and high profile people at companies like Facebook have a lot of leverage and can organise relatively easily because there's relatively few of them. The senior tech people and management need to recognise that they hold a ton of power because they basically run the place, their influence would be much better served by pressuring Facebook. It's Facebook who can't afford to lose them.
There needs to be some sort of class consciousness for the 'top 10% but not 0.1%'. They've got all the leverage in the world, and increasingly share no common ground with the owners of the business.
> Two senior Facebook employees told The New York Times that they had informed their managers that they would resign if Mr. Zuckerberg did not reverse his decision. Another person, who was supposed to start work at the company next month, told Facebook they were no longer willing to accept a position at the company because of Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision.
Switch easily even right now? I imagine they'd lose something in the process...
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Facebook will not lose employees at their pay rate, they’ll just get different ones.
You are definitely correct in that soft revolting is a waste.
If people have the chance to openly disagree with leadership, they probably can try to effect change - quitting is just giving up and letting those in favor of the status quo to keep driving decisions as they already do?
As far as 12 employees upset they are not getting their way, we all work in companies with people having differing opinions and perspectives. We can't force everyone to do as we feel and have to accept that we are going to have to work with other people and decisions may not fit our specific worldview.
remove the digital aspect, how would we the community or the law react to someone organizing mass pamphlet drops saying the same inflammatory things?
I suspect we wouldn't do anything except put a sign up individually saying "no pamphlets...
It's also very short-sighted to not realize that there are reasons to not remove certain content besides "we agree with and like the content".
All these "revolution" articles get very tiring when you realize how little they are actually reporting on, if anything
Facebookʼs recent decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. We implore the Facebook leadership to #TakeAction."
I now strongly believe it is negative for us as a society.
Just like one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Facebook and the other SV tech companies have a clear political bias that often seems like selective and directed censorship.
Blowing up a bus full of kids achieves no political goal in no scenario, nor should it.
Racism is racism, although reprehensible, is protected from government censorship and prior restraint. Companies providing for-profit platforms aren't the government and can do whatever they want since the first amendment doesn't apply to them.
If people really wanted free speech, they wouldn't popularize a company's platform but would pay a little to support and use a non-profit public commons platform that was sensibly/lightly regulated.
Tempest in a teapot.
Facebook leadership has made their modus operandi well known. They will enable anyone or anything that makes them money.
I don't know why a long term employee would suddenly be offended after years of abhorrent behavior.
I mean if this is important enough to protest, why not go on the record?