[AnonHP]

I think Meta employees don’t protest either for the genocides its platforms aided and supported or the other harms caused to kids in general. Maybe the pay is so good that one can convince oneself they’re on the good side. Maybe these companies attract a certain type of personality that doesn’t necessarily care much about others.

[staticassertion]

I doubt most people at Meta feel responsible for that. Surely people at Palantir understand that it's effectively the stated mission of their job.

[mikestorrent]

Concur; while Meta does have a role in determining the content people see, interacting with their platform is mostly voluntary. Palantir's platform interacts with you, not the other way around.

[vkou]

The answer is that responsibility is diffused. Very few people are actively building the 'Genocide Palestine' or the 'Illegally detain and torture immigrants' system, but a lot of people have submitted CLs to microservices that the 'Genocide Palestine' system (as well as a thousand others) calls.

Modern America is the complete antithesis of 'The Buck Stops Here.' It's more of an 'I have absolute power, and none of the accountability' sort of place.

If the president, or one of his armed, masked thugs with a license to kill can't ever be held accountable for the evil, vile shit they do, why should some low-level SWE feel any remorse or responsibility for those CLs?

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The solution? Don't tolerate it. Don't settle for no accountability. Don't think this is no big deal, or business as usual. The only way out of this, if power is ever taken back, is disproportionate punishment for the guilty. The country can move on and heal after justice is fairly apportioned.

Incidentally, both war crimes, and deprivation of rights under color of law are capital crimes in the United States.