One Meta employee spoke out against the tech company’s restriction on discussing the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling.
Ambroos Vaes, an engineer at Facebook’s parent company, posted about his frustration with the company’s Friday decision not to allow an open discussion of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, an internal decision made as people around the country discuss the far-reaching implications of the decision.
“On our internal Workplace platform, moderators swiftly remove posts or comments mentioning abortion,” wrote Vaes in a Saturday LinkedIn post. “The ‘respectful’ communications policy that was put in place explicitly disallows it.”
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Vaes said that discussions were limited to select groups of up to 20 employees in which they are required to “follow a set playbook.” Vaes also noted that content posted by Facebook executives about the ruling was rejected. “Sheryl Sandberg posted on her Facebook account about what happened today, and even links to her post are removed, out of fear of offending the few employees who might actually agree with the insanity that is going on,” the engineer added.
Vaes said he intends to stick with the company. “The reason I stay at Meta is no longer because I believe our products have some good in them,” Vaes said. “It’s so I can speak up loudly, internally and externally, to hopefully cause at least some change for the better. I hope others will join me in doing so.”
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Meta leadership announced on Friday that employees were not allowed to discuss the abortion ruling, noting that the company had policies that placed “strong guardrails around social, political and sensitive communications.”
They also pointed to a May 12 memo that, according to a copy acquired by the New York Times, stated that “discussing abortion openly at work has a heightened risk of creating a hostile work environment” and that the company had taken “the position that we would not allow open discussion.”
The abortion ruling has inspired a significant rise in protests and political unrest, including pro-abortion protesters disrupting the Arizona Senate while it was in session.
