We have a moral obligation to stop using facebook products.
Ask yourself where do you draw the line? If you don’t think facebook has crossed it, then you don’t know enough about facebook.
Ask yourself where do you draw the line? If you don’t think facebook has crossed it, then you don’t know enough about facebook.
A lot of this moral panic about Facebook's effect on society is just a projection of our general angst the democratization of media. A lot of our type of people, squishy liberal nerd types, cheered it on when it was starting, supposing that it will be an improvement over the status quo of pre-2010. Information flow will finally be free, and Evil Gatekeepers won't control it, that sort of stuff. Now that we've been disabused of the notion that this is a good development, we get all uppity.
Turns out your friends and neighbours always liked fake news, and always will. And so do you. Oops.
It’s not a moral panic, the people who run facebook have provably done terrible things. Would other people in their position do those things? Some would, some wouldn’t. There are people who do the right thing, even when it means their company losing a few bucks.
It is our responsibility to speak out against terrible companies like facebook. And if you, like me, work in tech, it is your job to not do terrible things.
If it’s not our responsibility, then it’s no one’s — and if you believe that, you believe in nothing.