Facebook Engineer's Stunning Admission: "We Tear Down Posters Welcoming Trump Supporters"

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Facebook Engineer's Stunning Admission: "We Tear Down Posters Welcoming Trump Supporters"

"The scathing indictment of Facebook's liberal "mono-culture" continues:

We do this so consistently that employees are afraid to say anything when they disagree with what’s around them  politically.?  HR has told me that this is not a rare concern, and I’ve personally gotten over a hundred messages to that effect. Your colleagues are afraid because they know that they — not their ideas — will be attacked.  They know that all the talk of “openness to different perspectives” does not apply to causes of “social justice,” immigration, “diversity”, and “equality.” On this issues, you can either keep quiet or sacrifice your reputation and career.

"These are not fears without cause" Amerige writes, and continues the stunning disclosure of the company's biased culture, "Because we tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters.  We regularly propose removing Thiel from our board because he supported Trump. We’re quick to suggest firing people who turn out to be misunderstood, and even quicker to conclude our colleagues are bigots. We have made “All Lives Matter” a fireable offense.  We put Palmer Luckey through a witch hunt because he paid for anti-Hillary ads.  We write each other ad-hoc feedback in the PSC tool for having “offensive” ideas. We ask HR to investigate those who dare to criticize Islam’s human rights record for creating a “non inclusive environment.” And they called me a transphobe when I called out our corporate art for being politically radical.

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Amerige wasn't alone in his criticism of Silicon Valley's liberal bias, and as the NYT reports, since the post went up,  "more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FB’ers for Political Diversity."  The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company. ...."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-29/facebook-engineers-stunning-admission-we-tear-down-posters-welcoming-trump

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Avatar mikeintexas -
#1
I deleted my FB account about two years ago. I enjoyed how I could keep in touch with my younger kinfolk and reconnecting with old classmates (and how did THEY get so old but I didn't? -grin-). I didn't take on many "new" friends, just a few fellow Cowboys fans and some from the conservative groups we subscribed to.

It was when those conservative groups started disappearing that I started to question FB's ulterior motives. Also, it was disturbing to see groups like "Kill Sarah Palin!" or "Somebody Shoot Trump, Please!" stay up while people were banned for calling them out. I was given a three day ban for reporting several of those type groups within a few hours, being told I was "abusing the reporting process". Silly me, I thought I was only doing "what was right".

Apparently, "right" is a bad word on Facebook, worse than any other.
Avatar konane -
#2
Thanks Mike. I think they allowed the situation to become obvious to everyone before applying a remedy. I'd just like to see all social media open to everyone as a modern town hall for debating the issues. I also feel we have sufficient law enforcement to investigate the usual stuff.
Avatar mikeintexas -
#3
It was only after installing a few add-ons to my browser that I started enjoying FB. I figured out how to block all the ads and with a great extension called "FB Purity" where I could allow or deny many of FB features and could set my home page the way I wanted to see it, I started using it more often.

The worst thing was people installing all types of apps or playing games that gave the apps/games access to their accounts, esp. their friends list and information associated with that.

I've thought about joining again, just b/c of my younger kinfolk and old school friends, but would use a fake name and a throwaway email account...but it really doesn't seem worth it.
Avatar konane -
#4
Thanks Mike. Good information to know.
Avatar jarasan -
#5
FFB.
Avatar konane -
#6
Thanks Jarasan. Other social media sites may be in focus too.
Avatar sully16 -
#7
Glad I never joined, my son did but has not logged on for years.
Avatar konane -
#8
Thanks Sully. I hope something is done to balance things for all.
Avatar Vergie6 -
#9
I have not been on FB in quite awhile...why can't things get back to normal...guess it's gone too far to ever do that again!
Avatar konane -
#10
Thanks Vergie. There may be an up and coming site sometime in the future to take its place where everyone can have a voice.

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