Also, yes, you can generally trust people to tell you what their real policies are. They might not be good policies, or well thought-through, etc., but there are very few people in the world who make it their business to lie and cheat every day.

Actually there are quite a lot of them.

Add some plain greed on top of that, and you'll end up with a lot of people. Grandparent is very naive.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-dist...

In a just world filled with righteous people, that chat log would have doomed Facebook to oblivion long ago.

This is laughably, shockingly, categorically wrong. People can and do change, all the time. Your opinions, values, etc didn't change from when you were in college?

But, my character, my moods, my tells, and the fundamental flow of my thought processes have never changed. I'm the same lumpish animal I was when I was a tot. When someone says "People don't change", I think the core of that sentiment is that the brain wiring that makes random person X who they are never changes (save the brain becoming damaged or fading, of course.) I'm talking about the essence of a mind.

So I contend that a creep like Zuck doesn't uncreep himself. A sociopath is wired that way, even if they're proficient at hiding that fact. You might say, "Zuck's been exposed to and riding atop a business operating at a mind-blowing scale and pace - that HAS to change a person!" I think that's just projecting what one thinks would happen to themselves in such a situation. What change can you actually point to in Zuck?

But to get back to the subject of the original subthread: not enough for us to trust him running our national ID structure, thank you very much.

What's SNS?

I really doubt that's the case.

As well as attitude towards his users as human beings generally.