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by kd5bjo
2308 days ago
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I was imprecise and overly snarky in my original reply, and for that I sincerely apologize. I’d still like an answer to the half of my question that you ignored, so let me try again in a more neutral tone: In my experience, most instances of someone (or a company) not doing something are not examples of conscious, intentional decisions but rather an unconscious process of the proposed thing not coming to mind. As a concrete example, I haven’t made a painting of anything since grade school. The vast majority of days, I didn’t consider and discard the idea of painting; the idea simply never presented itself. While Facebook’s history must absolutely be taken into account when trying to discern their motivations, I consider it fundamentally unjust to judge any given incident solely based on behavior in other incidents— otherwise, you leave no path to redemption for the alleged transgressor. As such, I would like to know if you have any evidence specific to this incident that indicates it was intentional rather than an accident, as claimed. |
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But then you base your reasoning for the "unintentional mishap" on the assumption that Facebook leadership (engineering or management) simply never had the idea to do anything about these issues even after they happen repeatedly? How many times can you claim ignorance and an endless string of "we'll do better"s? [0] [1] [2] [.....]
They do it because they get away with it. They get away with it because people are encouraged to think that they're mistakes and "everyone makes mistakes". But every one of these mistakes costs you, and benefits them. There's no accountability and that's exactly what you are pushing for now.
> I consider it fundamentally unjust to judge any given incident solely based on behavior in other incidents
Not solely, there's also the matter that they benefit from every one of them. Zuck founded his business on collecting data without user approval. With your reasoning you can make the concept of precedent irrelevant. You just turn them into completely separate incidents with no prior knowledge and then use wishful thinking to assume they were all mishaps.
You can shoot someone once by mistake. But what if you do it 15 times? And even true mistakes cost. Yet these "mistakes" never cost Facebook anything. They just employ an army of posters to insist it was a mistake and downplay the whole thing.
There's no amount of wishful thinking and downplaying that can compensate for common sense and prior experience. There's no reasonable way in which, in good faith, you can assume all these are mishaps. There's a long string of incidents that benefit them that serve as evidence.
P.S. You name one incident in the history of the world that you think is indefensible and I will use your reasoning to completely dismiss your accusation ;). Really, if you stand by your reasoning that shouldn't be hard.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-apologie...
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t...
[2] https://time.com/5505441/mark-zuckerberg-mentor-facebook-dow...