On the Record: Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth, Facebook's Hardware Boss
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- ‘Boz’
The silver lining of the misinformation era is that eventually, society will enforce severe consequences to those who casually lie to deceive people.
There isn’t a soul in our galaxy who believes that Facebook always does everything they can from a privacy, safety, and security standpoint.
When people like ‘Boz’ make statements like this, I wonder if they are even capable of feeling shame or regret.
I stand by my statement. If I’m wrong, please correct me without misrepresenting it.
That’s a deception even worse than lying!
Lie or not, this style of communication demands stricter sanctions.
My comment is about changing social norms to improve society. Perhaps my tone is a bit harsh, but on the object level I believe my comment is more constructive than the interview.
And on the point of tone, frankly, I think that people generally are far too polite in response to rhetorical deception.
But, that's not at all unusual or specific to Facebook. Many interviews with politicians or business leaders go the same way.
It would be better if someone bought their new device, tried it out, and took it apart. You can't learn stuff like that by interviewing a top executive. They don't even remember the details about how it all works, if they ever knew.
In any case, being more rude about such things on Hacker News seems unlikely to have any effect on how these interviews go. But they do have an effect on whether our conversations are worth reading. Generally speaking, I think we should look for ways to encourage curiosity. If the topic is Facebook, how can we find out more about what Facebook is really doing? What are some reliable sources? I don't think I want to put time into that myself, but reading a bunch of rude comments about how people think Facebook is still terrible isn't going to encourage anyone else's curiosity either.
This reminds me of how occasionally someone obsessed with a topic can be good at collecting and organizing information about it, even if they're a bit crazy in other ways. At least they're looking for stuff, and you don't have to share all their opinions to find it useful. On a good day, Hacker News conversations are more like that.