[cybernautique]

This is a good question! I've known only applicants to Google, never anyone that's worked at or meaningfully aspired to work at Facebook.

I'm not making this judgment on a rational basis; my stance is based purely on my ethical values and ideological commitments.

If you find this silly, or think that it invalidates my opinion then: power to you! I do not believe that my ethical values are universal statements, nor that my ethics must be shared by anyone. I simply don't care to qualify every one of my statements with "it seems," "in my opinion," etc.

I genuinely wish to engage on this topic, so I welcome any further reply from you.

[vlovich123]

I happened to have worked at Apple, Facebook and Google. I’ve found all the people there to be generally pretty morale people who try to positively influence decisions. Sometimes it’s a losing battle and decisions get made that you disagree with. However that’s broadly true of any group of people so saying all members of a group are morally compromised seems unhelpful. You could say the same about anyone working on the government or any business or even generally associating with people.

I disagree with the position taken that you can evaluate a person’s principles solely by their choice of employment or association. It’s only one factor and usually an unhelpfully reductive way to look at the world IMO.