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Major props to those causing a ruckous internally there. That said, they likely fully expected a backlash and likely didn't care. Anyone who cares can be replaced by another sycophant, at a reduced salary even.

Its amazing how quickly these assholes have dropped any sort of facade they were keeping up towards their public image. At best they are doing whatever they think will get them the most money, more realistically they actually support this regressive bullshit. As a non-American I am so pissed at what a good portion of that country has voted for and those that stayed home instead of preventing this.

Now we're doing headlines like this with tech companies in addition to politicians? These fuckers act with impunity because they can.

For some reason, it appears the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

What would it take for people to consider not looking at Instagram and Facebook? A feed full of snuff videos?

I refuse to use Meta, and I block their various URLs in my home. Friends and family complain and give me grief about it. It's astonishing how much of a creep Zuck is, and yet he's got his hooks in deep, and some people are still addicted to his garbage.

Imagine this being your red line. Your totally prepared to work at Facebook, because there's absolutely nothing dodgy about that, but suddenly his transphobia is a problem.

Man they’re not even doing the dog-whistle thing anymore, huh? Fucking disgusting, I hope he experiences the everlasting warmth of a car fire in the near future.

Meta's anti-LGBT rules are closely knit to their ending the fact-checking: It is science denialism and linked to racism and vaccine skepticism.

Homosexuality and gender identity are not considered mental illnesses, Sex is not a binary, and Race is not connected to intelligence.

Bigots never liked science on these three, and now they use political power to impose their narrative.

Meta never moderated such discourse. Nor reddit nor twitter nor youtube. There was no censorship to end here. What this is, it is a free pass to punch down trans and gay people. It is incitement to violence, and Zuckerberg and Musk must go to the gallows for it.

Don't get me started on the toxic harassment these platforms have allowed against African and Carribean reparation activists, how they have destroyed the lives of feminists, and how they have named all Palestinians terrorists.

At this point race realists and gender essentialists have ensured political and technological control of the narrative.

There is no room for debating sealioning trolls on this one. If they don't understand the social dynamics against gender/sex/minorities at this moment, they are no better than brownshirts.

It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.

Five people interviewed….

“It’s total chaos!!!”

I despise Facebook as much as the next person, but sensationalism hurts more than it helps.

we can only hope fb implodes sooner rather than later. I personally know multiple people working there who are very decent human beings who need to pay bills. I just hope their current trajectory will force employee action and paralyze fb long enough to hurt. Unlike other places it's not so simple to just hire a load of IT professionals and have any meaningful results short term, esp. if they have not been ramped up to speed by their colleagues. So it's not impossible, bowever tolerance threshold is kind of high for any action to take place. Wads of cash, unpaid mortgages and all. Employees of big tech are truly living in gold cages...

Gee I wonder why he’s suddenly decided to start moving parts of the business to Texas… little Musk-ette over here…

All of this is very likely to kiss the ring of Herr Trump

LMAO, employees are about to find out why a union would be a good idea. Gotta speedrun growing class consciousness.

“Total Chaos” feels a bit overblown…

You know what would be an effective 'protest'? If employees started deleting important files...

Meta was already enabling genocide in third world countries and countless other things but this is what caused chaos. Those employees have weird priorities, huh?

[edit] reworded slightly on the account of caused controversy

I guess being an a-hole has always been cheaper than not being one.

He knows which way the wind is blowing...

This puzzles me. Why do these Meta employees care for LGBTQ people? How can anyone work for Meta and have a conscience?