Meta employees still cash checks from evil company not realizing all the interference is possible due to them showing up to work every day.
If you care about preventing Meta from doing evil things, you have far more influence and power over that if you work for Meta.
He owns the company and all of its decisions. He is literally accountable to no one, from the board down.
The only viable action here is to do what the Brazilian government are going to do - document the abuses, and fine the company into oblivion and/or ban it if it doesn't behave itself.
If the US ever recovers democracy itself, pass the documentation on to the new US government.
By witnessing first-hand the abuse and blowing the whistle on Zuckerberg for trying to manipulate elections.
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal broke because an employee leaked proof, and now Facebook has to cough up 25 billion in fines. Do you think Zuckerberg didn't felt this?
Far to the other side are are FU Money/assets CEOs and what have you that could quit what they are doing. Not terribly far from them are well-paid software engineers who could just demote themselves to a regular-paid job and be fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255234
Notably with a regular, not-terribly-evil job they wouldn’t disappear from society at all. They would still be a part of society.
people are not questioning whether or not the goal is good or bad. they're showing that the Concern is really a Concern Troll. that is, their concerns aren't really sincere.
that said i think the appropriate meme for this is the Big Chin guy
If Meta keeps those positions at all.
It’s one thing to recognise it as evil, it’s entirely another to keep selling your times and skills to the evil you recognise.
(10) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
(11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
(12) Multiply paper work in plausible ways. Start duplicate files.A lot of folks left over Cambridge Analytica, another bunch left over Myanmar, more left over Trump, and yet the hits keep on coming...
Banality of the evil. Hannah Arendt.
If we start recognizing that we too are capable of awful things all while believing we are doing good, we can start self examining our ideas, motivations and behavior, to catch ourselves before we embark on such grouptrips.
But Arendt focused on the idea that exceptional evil can be perpetrated by people who aren't exceptionally malevolent.
Certainly at the C-suite level, the evidence is that people at Meta are exceptionally malevolent. There are direct quotes from Zuckerberg that illustrate this, like the one about people being suckers for giving him their information. As such, those aren't the people that Arendt was focusing on.
I'm arguing that there are many more people at Meta to whom that applies than you might imagine. They're aware that Meta has a bad reputation, but they choose to work there anyway because of a large paycheck. That's knowing participation. Slapping a facade of "making the world a better place" or "helping people connect" to hide that is not what Arendt was talking about.