Tag ethics

Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact. We’re listening, and taking action. 1/4

Mozilla (@mozilla)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:30 GMT

https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1478214668929933314

I would say "Did a diamond pay you to write this" but it looks like they did.

filmed on location in sunny Arrakis (@BrasTheSpaz)Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:29 GMT

👍🏻 For folks looking for concrete and impactful steps they can take that aren’t personal: divest from using Facebook tech in your projects. Vote with your tech stack. twitter.com/quinnypig/stat…

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https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1476372236776849408

Let me be clear: I think the company is molten garbage, but that's a very different thing than dunking on the humans who work there. I don't want to be remembered for a lack of empathy towards other people.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:17 GMT

Zach Leatherman (@zachleat)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:55 GMT

Reminder: Zuckerberg actually formed a fake business designed to trick Hawaiians into selling their land to him by making them think they were selling it to a Hawaiian owned farm, when in reality there was no farm and they were selling the land to a fucking haole.

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.@Facebook founder buys more #Kauai land, including Ka Loko Reservoir 808ne.ws/3eq7mtf

Star-Advertiser (@StarAdvertiser)Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:30 GMT

Keggoat (@bawleon)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 15:33 GMT

This was my opinion of Elf On A Shelf in 2017. If anything my view has strengthened. It is immoral, on many levels.

𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿 ᶦˢ ˢᵗᶦˡˡ ᵘⁿᶜᵒⁿᵛᶦⁿᶜᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᵇˡᵒᶜᵏᶜʰᵃᶦⁿ (@alexbloor)Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:45 GMT

As Kelloggs moves to redesign their products with their signature name on it, here are a list of their products that you can boycott. Support @BCTGM!

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https://twitter.com/_NevadaMan/status/1471688995792777217

Our data show that consumers routinely focus on the visual of the Pop-Tarts brand name, so we simplified the package design by removing "Kellogg's".

Kellogg's (@KelloggsUS)Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:28 GMT

Cory Provost (@coryprovost)Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:31 GMT

PSA: Do not use EAP therapy resources. This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally. @chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.

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Apple VP Deirdre O'Brien sent a video to retail staff acknowledging that this has been a uniquely challenging time but that store NPS is the highest it’s been. She also said the company has a “wide range of mental health resources” on the People Site. She announced…1/

Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer)Sat, 11 Dec 2021 22:12 GMT

Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:51 GMT

Yikes. TL;DR: Employee talks to HR about discrimination. Google suggests (on-campus) counseling. Google has access to notes from those sessions (!!) and used them against her in court (!!!). So much for that employer-provided "perk". Story here: nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/…

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PSA: Do not use EAP therapy resources. This is some of the legislation we are working on in Washington... hopefully federally. @chelseyglasson brought it to light that Google is using her EAP therapy notes against her... and the fact that they had access at all is alarming.

twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/st…

Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:51 GMT

Cody C. #BLM (@NfNitLoop)Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:41 GMT

https://twitter.com/Martycus/status/1463728286710870020

Nah, because their whole thing was always about minimal profits and reinvesting in growth. It’s a culture society needs more of, but it’s definitely vulnerable in the short-term. Hoping they come back with a vengeance.

Stephen Punwasi 🌋 🚀 (@StephenPunwasi)Thu, 25 Nov 2021 05:11 GMT

https://twitter.com/Martycus/status/1463724390433140741

Their parent company @mozilla turned out to be the only responsible company of the internet giants. They still do work to keep the internet open and safe.

Stephen Punwasi 🌋 🚀 (@StephenPunwasi)Thu, 25 Nov 2021 04:29 GMT

What the sign said

Caroline Park (박지영) MD, MPH (@CPark_MD)Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:48 GMT

I am hugely Facebook critical but don't think it's appropriate to post about how everyone who works there is evil/should leave/etc. Just because you personally wouldn't take a job there everyone has their own reasons. Direct your anger at the leaders and company level.

Emily Kager (@EmilyKager)Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:45 +0000

“We expect the press to hold us accountable…but” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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We expect the press to hold us accountable, given our scale and role in the world. But when reporting misrepresents our actions and motivations, we believe we should correct the record.

Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom)Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:37 +0000

Kevin Roose (@kevinroose)Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:53 +0000

all the cool tech in the world is still unethical if the profits from it are used to subsidize providing free service to neo-Nazis and transphobes because of the founder's strange ideological bent.

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https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1443035440810901511

One final point: Now let’s remember that the internet is 1-to-many. If 1 million people download that 1GB this month, my cost with @cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52. THAT is why people are losing their minds over this.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:52 +0000

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey)Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:05 +0000

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1443077255891021827

still not giving Cloudflare a cent of my money if I can help it given their steadfast support for the people who doxx me and my loved ones :(

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey)Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:04 +0000

FB knew human traffickers used its sites to sell people. It took limited action against them until Apple Inc. threatened to remove FB and IG from its app store w/ @newley @JeffHorwitz wsj.com/articles/faceb… via @WSJ

Justin Scheck (@ScheckWSJ)Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:18 +0000

Everyone who posts articles from The Guardian: please use dumptheguardian.com instead. All you gotta do is add “dump” to the URL and it’ll link to the Internet Archive version of the story, denying ad revenue and clicks. 😉

Charlie Don't Surf (@sonniesedge)Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:24 +0000

caption is “POV you interview with silicon valley’s hot new tech startup” and wow if i don’t feel this in my bones

jess (@jessfromonline)Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:00 GMT

are facebook evil? well, they've been instrumental in the rise of fascism across the world and they profit off right-wing violence, but also they made graphql, so who's to say

Kat Maddox (@ctrlshifti)Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:13 GMT

Uber Eats just spent $5.5 million plus whatever it cost to get Cardi B, Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey to tell us to "support local restaurants" while putting local restaurants out of business by charging them 30% delivery fees.

Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle)Mon, 08 Feb 2021 01:54 GMT

I’ve tweeted this before, but my ethics professor impregnated his son’s girlfriend. I think about it every class

Sierra Armor 𝔼𝕣𝕚𝕤 (@unbridled_id)Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:52 GMT

So if Parler were as big & influential as Facebook, and paid similar salaries, would tech folks make excuses for working there too?

keziyah (@KeziyahL)Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:04 GMT

Hi! I’m a recruiter from Facebook. Would you like to join us building the #1 tool domestic terrorists used to coordinate an attack on our nation’s capitol?

Alex Manthei (@xoalexo)Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:29 GMT

finally some innovation in tech

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A message from our CEO, Tom Keiser

Hootsuite (@hootsuite)Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:22 +0000

bletchley punk is a fullmetal engineer (@alicegoldfuss)Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:24 +0000

The trolley problem at Facebook.

Ro (@Rochelle)Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:57 +0000

I would like everyone asking me "what framework should I use instead?" to remember 💖 there is no ethical consumption under capitalism 💖

Nat Alison (@tesseralis)Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:54 +0000

If Apple Watch can detect hand washing now then it can probably detect other activities involving vigorous hand motions and I for one would like to know what Apple is doing with the data

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:24 +0000

Proof (if ever any was needed) that software engineers can do an enormous amount of harm if they do not consider the negative externalities of their actions. Social media sites are created in the image of their founders. Zuckerberg is going to be on the wrong side of history.

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https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1267468248343183361

If Facebook was your sole news source, and you saw only the most popular links on the platform, you'd think that what happened this weekend was a violent, unprovoked attack on law enforcement by a left-wing terror group.

Kevin Roose (@kevinroose)Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:53 +0000

Kieran McHugh (@kieranmch)Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:01 +0000