Facebook employees hold virtual walkout over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to act against Trump

Good morning Listers I hope you are all keeping well despite the challenging times. This article might be of interest to some of you. Rgds. Facebook employees are staging a rebellion over Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to act against Donald Trump, expressing their dissatisfaction with their boss on social media in a rare public display of dissent and, in some cases, staging a “virtual” walkout. Disagreement came from employees at all levels of the company, including some senior staff. Particular criticism was levelled at Zuckerberg’s personal decision to leave up <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/29/facebook-trump-twitter-social-media-us?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other> the Facebook version of a tweet sent by Trump in which the president appeared to encourage police to shoot rioters. By contrast, Twitter hid the message behind a warning <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/29/twitter-hides-donald-trump-tweet-glorifying-violence> . https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/01/facebook-workers-rebel-ma...

Hi GG and listers. Whilst I simply cannot condone what Trump is doing on social media I'm just curious who has the moral responsibility to censor some of the more inflammatory utterances? Does #BigTech have any moral authority to censure us? Do Third-Party Platforms have the right to do this? Does the government? Why not extend this to the mad man in the village spewing conspiracy theories and telling the village headmen that contrary to all comments about his clothes, he's actually walking naked. The world has ignored Net Neutrality to its own detriment. Time to revisit this conversation? Regards *Ali Hussein* Digital Transformation Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:52 AM Grace Githaiga via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Good morning Listers
I hope you are all keeping well despite the challenging times. This article might be of interest to some of you.
Rgds.
Facebook employees are staging a rebellion over Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to act against Donald Trump, expressing their dissatisfaction with their boss on social media in a rare public display of dissent and, in some cases, staging a “virtual” walkout.
Disagreement came from employees at all levels of the company, including some senior staff. Particular criticism was levelled at Zuckerberg’s personal decision to leave up <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/29/facebook-trump-twitter-social-media-us?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other> the Facebook version of a tweet sent by Trump in which the president appeared to encourage police to shoot rioters. By contrast, Twitter hid the message behind a warning <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/29/twitter-hides-donald-trump-tweet-glorifying-violence> .
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