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I would have been far harsher!

If you work for an immoral organization and are OK with that by virtue of continuing to draw a wage there, YOU ARE AS IMMORAL as the company because you aid and abet it.

I won't have anything to do with you based on that. I'll be polite and arm's length interacting with you but NOTHING beyond that will ever be possible; not personal, not business, not social!

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This. I've lost my respect for so many developers who have decided to go to work for these net-social-negative surveillance companies for a fat paycheck and justify their decision by the argument that if they didn't accept the offer, then someone worse would accept.

What annoys me is not that they took the job for the paycheck (we all have to eat at the end of the say), but rather the fact that all it takes to appease their moral conscience is such a weak and flimsy bit of moral acrobatics. Have a spine and accept the real consequences of your actions at least.

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