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Yup. You are making your own future. As the enablers, your choices are guiding what these companies can do. Zuckerberg's ethics (lack thereof) are well-known. But the upper management of Facebook, their lawyers, their financiers, the folks who buy access to the personal data, they cannot write code. You are not just some code monkey drone, following instructions from your boss or taking feature requests from naive end-users, _your_ choices, _your_ ethics, make a difference.

What was it that Dennis Ricthie said about his move to Bell Labs? Something like "It was 1968 and working on military projects just didn't feel right." He went on to make an enormous contribution and, we hope, preserved his peace of mind at the same time. You will never regret taking the high road. Just an opinion.

[cpeterso]

I am reminded of Pigdog's 2002 open letter/rant to the Sony engineers who wrote the CD DRM code that would brick iMacs.

WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE! ;)

"d00d, Quit being a FUCKING ASS": http://www.pigdog.org/auto/software_jihad/link/2581.html