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by xyzzyfoobar 533 days ago
but does that mean that Facebook all along never cared about things like domestic violence, racial equality, and stuff?
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"Facebook" is a corporate entity that does not have the ability to "care about" anything.

Employees, board members, shareholders, customers, suppliers and users have the ability to care about things and to influence the actions of the collective. Presumably most of those people care about the same things today they cared about yesterday.

But we're about to have a federal government which is openly corrupt, vindictive and indifferent to the law. People who find themselves as targets of the new regime face existential threats if they don't show fealty, deflect blame or find some other way to survive. Giving a million dollars to inauguration and putting one of the cronies on the 13-person board is probably a rational response to the threats.

> "Facebook" is a corporate entity that does not have the ability to "care about" anything.

Why do we tolerate the existence of such entities?

Perhaps if they were no account fly by night little things, but as huge corporations dominating the economy....

They should not be tolerated, unless they change.

We can do better

> But we're about to have a federal government which is openly corrupt, vindictive and indifferent to the law.

Just like any other federal government. Nothing to see here.

> but does that mean that Facebook all along never cared about things like domestic violence, racial equality, and stuff?

Why would they ? Those things do not bring new users (victims).

My takeaway the last 8 years (living in US) is that most people don't care about the things they claim to care about

In fact many don't even comprehend the things they claim and are just parroting words

...:(