Facebook Employees Begin to Revolt

Why don&#x27;t they revolt by quitting? I know not every employee is able to do that but I&#x27;m guessing that at Facebook the vast majority could switch job fairly easily.<p>Once Facebook realizes that they are losing good employees they are more likely to change those policies.<p>Unfortunately most Facebook employees want to continue getting outrageously paid at the 95 percentile of the market and soft &quot;revolting&quot; without risking their $$$. That tells a lot a bout their convictions.

I actually like Zuckerberg&#x27;s response. I dont want tech companies being the arbiters of truth, leave that up to us to decide.<p>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&#x27;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.

&quot;Facebook employees are beginning to revolt&quot; is not an acceptable title for a company of 50,000 when what you&#x27;re really discussing is a small amount of employees speaking out, as well as expressing your own disagreement.<p>It&#x27;s also very short-sighted to not realize that there are reasons to not remove certain content besides &quot;we agree with and like the content&quot;.<p>All these &quot;revolution&quot; articles get very tiring when you realize how little they are actually reporting on, if anything

&quot;The React Core team is joining the Facebook employee walkout in solidarity with the Black community.<p>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.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dan_abramov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1267544361929256966" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dan_abramov&#x2F;status&#x2F;1267544361929256966</a>

One man&#x27;s racism is another man&#x27;s free speech.<p>Just like one man&#x27;s terrorist is another man&#x27;s freedom fighter.<p>Facebook and the other SV tech companies have a clear political bias that often seems like selective and directed censorship.

&gt;More than a dozen Facebook employees tweeted that they disagreed with Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision, including the head of design of Facebook’s portal product, Andrew Crow.<p>Tempest in a teapot.

Gruber’s not really adding much here to the original NYT reporting. I would suggest changing the URL for this submission to point directly to the article at the Times.

I&#x27;m confused why people that are anti-Trump don&#x27;t wish his remarks, that they would presumably characterise as completely and unambiguously unacceptable, to face the scrutiny of the public to the fullest extent. Especially in an election year. It seems clearly in the public interest that this sort of speech by the president isn&#x27;t censored and is discussed far and wide, and exposed to the light of day. The only reason I can think of for people wanting to suppress it is that they have such a low estimation of the average American, that they deem it simply too dangerous to be publicised. I must admit, I don&#x27;t think any private business, or group of individuals, should make these sorts of judgements on behalf of an entire nation. The only way out of this crisis is by rapid and painful evolution, with the threat of failure real and ever-present. Coddling, control of information and censorship isn&#x27;t the answer.

Why is anyone inside facebook even surprised by this?<p>Facebook leadership has made their modus operandi well known. They will enable anyone or anything that makes them money.<p>I don&#x27;t know why a long term employee would suddenly be offended after years of abhorrent behavior.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;creativefuture.org&#x2F;facebook-scandal-timeline&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;creativefuture.org&#x2F;facebook-scandal-timeline&#x2F;</a>

I find it humorous for employees of an evil ad company try to convince us they have a conscience.

Someone has to start and these few people are the ones raising their hand up. More will follow over time. I can imagine the current economic climate is probably restraining a lot of people right now. In that sense Zuckerberg has some time to fix it he wants to. But I would expect the voices to grow louder over time.

When marking a post as dupe, can you also please post links to the original?

Are they really? I read the NYT article and there were no names of anyone who is really coming forward. It could be happening, but if it&#x27;s all just anonymous quotes how will we know?<p>I mean if this is important enough to protest, why not go on the record?