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FACEBOOK ENGINEER QUITS OVER COMPANY’S MOB-LIKE ATTACKS ON ANYONE OPPOSED TO ‘LEFT-LEANING IDEOLOGY’
Daily Caller ^ | October 11, 2018 | Grace Carr

Posted on 10/12/2018 4:21:41 AM PDT by lowbridge

A Facebook engineer announced his resignation Wednesday, decrying the company culture as one that operates on groupthink, uses appeasement as a PR strategy, and attacks conservative views.

“I’m leaving because I’m burnt out on Facebook, our strategy, our culture, and our product,” Brian Amerige wrote in an internal message to company employees, adding that Facebook’s PR strategy is “appeasement — not morally earned pride and self-defense,” according to Business Insider.

“I care too deeply about our role in supporting free expression and intellectual diversity to even whole-heartedly attempt the product stuff anymore, and that’s how I know it’s time to go,” Amerige also wrote.

Amerige will officially leave the company Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brianamerige; enoughalready; facebook; pc; postedseveraltimes; resignation; socialmedia
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1 posted on 10/12/2018 4:21:41 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Going Galt?

KYPD


2 posted on 10/12/2018 4:26:52 AM PDT by petro45acp (So why wasn't anyone there willing, able, and equipped to protect those people?)
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To: lowbridge

Google, Twitter and Facebook all have the same left leaning groupthink.


3 posted on 10/12/2018 4:32:40 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: petro45acp

I went mostly Galt in 2011. it’s actually been awesome. I highly recommend it.


4 posted on 10/12/2018 4:34:37 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Blue Highway

I got rid of Google search and replaced it with DuckDuckGo.


5 posted on 10/12/2018 4:42:15 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: New Jersey Realist

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll try it.


6 posted on 10/12/2018 4:51:17 AM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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To: lowbridge

FB has chosen to promote *slam and to suppress normal peoples’ thoughts.


7 posted on 10/12/2018 4:53:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: lowbridge

Where is the hate heading? Can it be turned around? When there are business leaders so sick they are willing to sacrifice their companies’ economic futures on a political ideology, our country has a major social problem. Let’s hope that good old capitalism will either sober these stupid fools up or rid them from the business world. It all originates from a failed educational system in this country.


8 posted on 10/12/2018 4:54:27 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: lowbridge

His use of “our” tells me he identifies with the company. He is going to have a terrible time adjusting to his new unemployed reality. I hope he finds a new role to attach his identity to quickly. It’s a shame he left as he is exactly what his former company needed.


9 posted on 10/12/2018 5:06:48 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: lowbridge

Damn. He should have stayed and been a saboteur or spy.


10 posted on 10/12/2018 5:35:22 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: DCBryan1
Damn. He should have stayed and been a saboteur or spy.

Yeah, what is it with these people who have character and conviction?


11 posted on 10/12/2018 5:45:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Blue Highway
"Google, Twitter and Facebook all have the same left leaning groupthink."

Don't leave out YouTube. They've gone off the Progressive rails just as much as the rest of them. There really needs to be an alternative to all of these companies. As they continue to deplatform more and more Conservative and Libertarian voices they create an ever growing market for competition and new startups. We need to keep an eye open for just that and jump on board early when we see it. I'd love to get in on the ground floor of a new FaceBook or Google.

12 posted on 10/12/2018 5:49:36 AM PDT by Desron13 (Inside every progressive is a petty tyrant straining to break free.)
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To: Gen.Blather

“He is going to have a terrible time adjusting to his new unemployed reality.”

He will. I’m entrenched in the new social media, and there are many new companies being formed where he will find a great new home working for them.


13 posted on 10/12/2018 5:50:54 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: Desron13

Did you notice that Apple’s CEO has met with Trump on privacy issues. A day of reckoning is coming.

The Big Tech’s abuse personal privacy will be severely curtailed before 2024.


14 posted on 10/12/2018 6:01:34 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: lowbridge

My son follows several libertarian groups on Facebook. He told me yesterday 24 of them were purged. Gone, removed. 23 groups not adhering to the groupthink. These groups had millions of followers.


15 posted on 10/12/2018 6:10:31 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Blue Highway

Google, Twitter and Facebook all have the same left leaning groupthink.

——

I don’t always understand our rights vs the law, but can’t Trump or rather an attorney general (a real attorney general who fought for the rights of the people). Can’t a company like google be broken up because they have too much power?


16 posted on 10/12/2018 8:05:05 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: Desron13

Youtube is owned by Google


17 posted on 10/12/2018 9:38:37 AM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: Desron13

Google actually owns YouTube unless that has changed.


18 posted on 10/12/2018 9:40:42 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Desron13
Don't leave out YouTube. They've gone off the Progressive rails just as much as the rest of them.

You do realize Google owns Youtube, right?
19 posted on 10/12/2018 9:23:26 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: lowbridge; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; dirtymac; Fedora; ...

This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

Related: Facebook says hackers saw personal info of 14 million people

20 posted on 10/13/2018 12:00:47 PM PDT by upchuck (Definition of a Republican registered to vote but doesn't on Nov 6: A DEMOCRAT!)
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