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>>colone+(OP)
Said this yesterday in the other Facebook thread, and I'll say it again.

Working for Facebook is a morally bankrupt position. If you are an engineer you have plenty of job opportunities available to you and there is no excuse for you to continue contributing your labor and time to a wholly malignant organization. At a certain point one has to ask how we as an industry will start dealing with those who continue to take a paycheck from Facebook even in the face of constant and horrific evidence of wholesale ethical violations and negligence.

>>pdeuch+zb
For better or worse, a lot of people can distance themselves from what the company does. I used to work as a software engineer for one of the largest banks in the world...The department I worked in had exactly zero to do with money, I never got close to a customer, I never had to deal with an account of any kind. It was a really cool gig, too.

With as big as Facebook is, a lot of people (the majority?) are not directly connected to all the crap you see in the news. Sure, you can say they contribute to it, and you'd be totally correct...but Im sure what they see is a bunch of smart people working on cool technology with a good salary and free lunch.

So yeah, its probably "morally corrupt", no denying it, but so's the majority of companies that hire more than 50 people, one way or another. You have to work somewhere.

Then you have people who are trying to do the right thing from the inside. I knew someone who worked for Google purely to try and change its culture. The paycheck probably didn't hurt. There's a lot of these people.