I think it's the implication that anyone that works for facebook is inherently immoral and exchanging their own ethics for cash, which is not true imo.

There are lots of great people doing great things at FB, and if we apply this standard to FB we should also be applying it elsewhere. I'm not entirely sure many major companies have been completely controversy-free... Work for Apple? well you are complicit in sweatshops. Work for Uber? Complicit in sexism and workers being taken advantage of. Work for Spotify? Complicit in artists not getting paid what they should get. I would be interested in hearing where I am allowed to work if we follow this to it's conclusion.

(NB: I don't work for facebook or any of these companies...)

It's hilarious that developers throw their hands up in the air when any one of the FAANG companies actually get questioned as a moral place to work.

"Well I GUESS I CANT WORK ANYWHERE THEN"

Really? There is a vast amount of smaller companies that are great employers and where you will enjoy your work just as much.

I’m just saying it’s a standard we don’t apply consistently, even across the tech world, never mind to other industries.

Besides, different people have different moral perspectives, and I assume most people at Facebook probably think the company has had a net benefit on society (even if you don’t).

Bingo. That's why working at all these companies is morally problematic.

Unless software engineers "vote" by going to work elsewhere, this won't change.

Looks for companies with solid ethics, and with founders who have background working at or starting other similar companies.

But not coincidentally, the pay at these companies will be at least multiple times less than at Big Tech.