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>>pseudo+(OP)
So - the tesla driving facebookers get a day off from work - paid - not even using their vacation - and this is a walkout?

Are they forfeiting their stock to protest facebooks offensive conduct?

This is the look at me style of protesting.

Quit your job and work a better company if you think facebook is a scum company.

>>thoraw+qa
The "just quit and work elsewhere" argument comes up every time on Hacker News.

Maybe they think the company can be a force for good or at least not evil, but it's not living up to that or taking advantage of its opportunity?

If everyone just quits companies instead of pushing them to do better, the only people left at those companies will be at best morally apathetic and at worst actively evil (in the eyes of whoever is trying to reform them).

By operating speech platforms, these companies are inherently political. It's not like they're making nuts and bolts. Inaction is still action. Letting people run ads with hate speech or building recommendation algorithms that start with mild conservative views and then send you down a rabbit hole that ends at full Nazi-ism, is still a political action even if you intended the platform to be neutral or unbiased.

>>skrtsk+Mf
Let's be totally clear. These employees don't want free speech on the platform - they want their speech to be the one selected on the platform. The MINUTE Facebook starts censoring some of what they like they'll be out protesting that too. It's shut down the other folks views.

And BTW - free speech does not mean Nazi-ism - in fact, the Nazi's had perhaps one of the most famous censorship ops going with Goebbels. It's actually a pretty good tell for fascism, dictators etc - make it hard for other voices to be heard.

When I read Trumps stuff, I just want to vote him out of office.