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For what it's worth, the work of an few engineers implementing the business decisions of their employer does not make those people inherently evil. It is their job, and they need to pay the bills somehow.

This change is highly anti-consumer and potentially unethical, yes, but it makes perfect sense towards the group's own business interests.

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> For what it's worth, the work of an few engineers implementing the business decisions of their employer does not make those people inherently evil

I think when people do unethical actions, it makes the person doing the unethical action unethical. People are defined by their actions. I'm also tired of this 'need to pay the bills somehow' excuse. Someone who has an engineering job at Facebook has vast career options.

They are not forced to do that work at a gunpoint, and as software engineers who managed to land jobs at FB, they most certainly have plenty of other options - even within FB.

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