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0 pointsloeg1y ago0 comments

Suppose you made a bad policy decision and want to roll it back. How do you do that? Anything you do is going to piss someone off. I think they're trying to do it in a plausibly reasonable way without shitting on everyone who worked on it for a couple years.

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paxys1y ago

It's funny how they suddenly realized and reversed every "wrong" policy decision made over many years just days before a new administration takes over. And these new policies are exactly aligned with what the administration wants.

loegOP1y ago

Maybe you have the causality backwards — that the response to these kinds of unpopular policies are why a new administration was elected.

llamaimperative1y ago

It was, after all, the federal government that forced Meta to do any DEI anything /s

AnimalMuppet1y ago

Well, if you've made a bad decision, which is better, to reverse it for a bad reason, or to keep it for a not as bad reason?

JeremyNT1y ago

They didn't have to announce shit, much less announce it right as the new regime is taking over. If they wanted to sunset these programs they could've slowly ramped these programs down without saying anything and nobody would've noticed.

This sends a very clear message about what they're trying to do and whose side they are on.

loegOP1y ago

I disagree that silently rolling it back would not be noticed or create at least as big a shit-storm. Being public about the change was the only real option.

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paxys1y ago

loegOP1y ago

Maybe you have the causality backwards — that the response to these kinds of unpopular policies are why a new administration was elected.

llamaimperative1y ago

It was, after all, the federal government that forced Meta to do any DEI anything /s

AnimalMuppet1y ago

Well, if you've made a bad decision, which is better, to reverse it for a bad reason, or to keep it for a not as bad reason?

JeremyNT1y ago

This sends a very clear message about what they're trying to do and whose side they are on.

loegOP1y ago

I disagree that silently rolling it back would not be noticed or create at least as big a shit-storm. Being public about the change was the only real option.

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