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Culture comes straight from the top. You can certainly tell that with Facebook and Zuckerberg.

A good solution to this would be to put a hiring freeze on any ex-Facebooker and claim that if they can overlook Facebook's questionable practices, then they would be a danger for your company and its customers.

Hold employees responsible for the actions of their employer.

You could institute a "two year freeze" for any FB alum. A public statement by an ex-employee rebuking these practices would be enough to sidestep the hiring moratorium, but make them acknowledge how bad their employer is for privacy and democracy.

Especially after what they did with the last US election cycle.

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I'm not saying that employees are always exempt from responsibility, but your brute-force approach is tyrannical, scary... Just imagine what all other employees would think if such an action would be possible, everyone would be afraid to do his job, everything would collapse. These are complex problems, there can't be an easy guillotine-like solution.

"public statement by an ex-employee rebuking these practices"

This idea sounds uncannily familiar for anyone from the former Soviet bloc.

Wow, you spend really a lot of effort on virtue signaling.

Should we also institute public lynching of all employees of companies that had security breaches?

> Should we also institute public lynching of all employees of companies that had security breaches?

This isn't about a security breach. Facebook is a horrible company and has damaged the world with its unique stances on privacy and data gathering.

> Wow, you spend really a lot of effort on virtue signaling.

By what measure?

I really don't want anyone who is willing to sacrifice their morals around personal privacy and the integrity of our democracy working for me.

If and when I do get the opportunity to hire someone from Facebook to work for me, I will ask them why they worked at Facebook, what they think of the company's ethics, and if they did anything to make the company better for the world.

Perhaps some folks check their ethics at the door when they show up for work, but ethics matter. They don't become unimportant or irrelevant choices in light of our paycheck.

Choosing to work for Facebook says a lot about a person.

Depends on when they joined Facebook. Early employees had no idea what it would become.

Totally. I tried to phrase it as a "cool off" period since they were last employed by the company. If someone hasn't worked there in five years, they're not involved in the present day debacle and can't vote against company practices.

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