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According to Facebook employees who spoke with the New York Times, staffers are also urging the company to hunt down the leakers who released the Bosworth memo.
If the report is accurate, the deletion of internal communications could have legal implications, including in an ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company’s data-handling practices. Destruction of internal documents was a partial focus of the FTC’s recent investigation of Volkswagen.
Bosworth’s memo continued catastrophic PR fallout following findings that the Facebook data of as many as 50 million users was wrongly harvested by the election consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. In the memo leaked Thursday, Bosworth wrote that “connecting people” should be the company’s driving goal, even if “it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies” or “someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”
(Score: 5, Interesting) by turgid on Monday April 02 2018, @04:04PM (12 children)
In the USA, it appears, that people depend on their employers, usually large corporations, for absolutely everything. No job means no pension and no health insurance.
There are few legal protections on workers, so the employers get to exploit their staff almost as much as they like. Can't take the heat? You're free to leave the kitchen. Just don't get sick or old or need to eat.
Any form of "dissent" is therefore not possible, even what a reasonable person might consider constructive criticism. Furthermore, the political system is such that those with the money (the corporations) call the tunes. The people get to vote for this corporate stooge (Republican) or that corporate stooge (Democrat).
Meanwhile, the corporations clutch at ever-thinning straws as they blindly lurch further into their feedback free world, their revenues declining as the rest of the world moves on.
Facebook is not different to any of the others.
How about putting legal limits on the amount of money politicians are allowed to accept from various donors? How about making them publish a list (on the Intertubes) of what money they got and from whom? Do they already do this? If not, why not?
If you decoupled yourselves from your corporations, you might find yourselves more free. That will never happen because COMMIES!!!!!
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:14PM
During WWII, wartime caps on employee compensation forced companies to come up with interesting ways to pay people; companies started offering "benefits", one of which was health insurance.
Then, politicians began using those benefits (especially insurance) as issues for getting elected, and hence the insurance "market' has become increasingly ossified. This didn't matter too much at first, because hey, everyone graduated from high school and then got a lifelong career in one company, anyway. Well, that assumption no longer makes any sense, and thus the "benefits" idea no longer makes any sense, but the legal ossification of the system has made it impossible to adapt.
Thanks government!
That doesn't stop you commies from blaming capitalism, though.
With regard to pensions, well, put your money in an index fund and load up your tax-reduced retirement plans and HSAs, and you'll have your own pension plan, one that isn't dependent on any particular organization—it's not even strictly dependent on any government.
Beat that.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Barenflimski on Monday April 02 2018, @04:27PM (3 children)
Don't forget that corporations have their own "laws." When you sign up, you better act 'appropriately', defined in section F, pages 161-714, or you will lose your pension, health care and your job. Live in Menlo Park? Better make sure you look right at the grocery store, because the other facebooker's may turn you in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:34PM (1 child)
Without having to convince the fools around you, you can just unilaterally choose to put your life under some other "law".
Competition in law is just as important as competition in any other aspect of society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @06:16AM
Don't confusing being able to choose your master with freedom.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:38PM
It is hard to believe so many people truly drank the corporate kool-aid, but I guess that's where the sin of Pride steps in. Everyone wants to feel important and change the world, it is just amazing so many seemingly intelligent people but the corporate PR scams. Many developers seem to have some weird innocent belief that the corporations wouldn't do such nefarious things! They are looking out for the end users otherwise their market would disappear! It is a self-defeating bit of logic that doesn't hold up under the numerous examples of corporate greed.
We need to revoke the person status of corporations like yesterday! Let the individuals running the monsters take responsibility for their actions, no more of this legal evasion by jumping out with a golden parachute before the plane crashes into the mountain.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:32PM (3 children)
We are deathly afraid of commies over here, but we're even more afraid of helping someone out who doesn't DESERVE it. Queue the poor eating each other alive, and otherwise capable productive people falling into depression.
(Score: 3, Touché) by turgid on Monday April 02 2018, @05:57PM (2 children)
I think there was this dude called Jesus... And many Americans claim to be Christians. I'm more Christian than them and I'm a card-carrying heathen atheist devil worshiping lefty.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @08:53PM
I'm sorry, you seem to be not following the correct "Jesus". Americans follow the NRA approved "Second Amendment Jesus", for great justice, and negligent discharge.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 02 2018, @09:24PM
Those motherfuckers wouldn't recognize Jesus if he smacked them across their faces and left a giant angry red handprint with a size 98 nail hole in it. I, like you, am a nonbeliever (though a Deist rather than an atheist) and am doing Christianity-according-to-Jesus better than them. But there are things living under rocks that do Christianity-according-to-Jesus better than them, so... *shrug*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
Only a slave thinks that "health insurance" (lmao) is a benefit. If only i could be robbed of more of my money to pay for the slow, expensive poisoning of some fat ass moron who sits around eating bullshit and getting dumber watching tv all day, life would be so much better. People who are too lazy/stupid to learn about their own health to prevent all these completely preventable diseases need to be culled by nature. Furthermore, once these degenerate, lying poison dealers in "healthcare" get a toehold (codified) they'll be forcing poison on everyone, not just the ignorant kiss asses. "Brain damage your kids? Tough shit, slave you're not a subversive conspiracy theorist are you? We'd hate to have to repo your kids (state's property under your marriage license/birth certificate/SS card) put you on another list or send you to the re-education center." Global slavery is what the spread of all this big government shit is.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 03 2018, @02:10AM
You sound very well educated! I love that. But I also love the poorly educated. We must take care of them. And that's why we must have universal healthcare. Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, "no, no, the lower 25% that can't afford private." But I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now. They're going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. The government's going to pay for it. But we're going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it's going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday April 02 2018, @05:26PM
That will never happen so long as politicians are in charge of voting on laws.
Nor will there be any restrictions placed on the other legal forms of graft, like:
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.