> People are biased about Facebook for various reasons, including $privacy-issue-of-the-day"
While FB as a company certainly is not altruistic, they employ quite a few privacy-minded engineers. Data leaks to the outside of their walled garden are very likely treated as company-wide problems, but as the LGBT doxes showed, there are wide implications even within their walls. [0]
As they try to capture ever larger parts of the online population, they will* keep colliding with non-Western, non-SV norms. The privacy issues may be nothing but a canary in the goldmine, because they are mostly an expression of non-SV values. For example, I have my doubts about how long images of traditional Hindu artwork would be allowed to stay up...
0: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/27/facebook-authentic-...
That's no good either, because then they are just giving it to you so they can sure you later and steal your startup due to the PATENTS file.
That is, unless we're talking about their newest PHP optimizer or ad toolkit.