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Re:Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizat... by niij on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:18PM (#16702546)
>He hasn't. He has pledged to donate 99% of his wealth to a private, for-profit organization that he owns.

I initially thought you were being overly critical here. It looks like you're right, the "Initiative" he created is an LLC and not a non-profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative#Com...

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Re:Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizat... by ucaetano on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:34PM (#16702649)
Yep, and not his first rodeo either. Remember the "Internet.org", a for-profit initiative that is part of Facebook? Putting ".org" in something for-profit that tries to achieve monopoly is as dishonest as it gets...
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Re:Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizat... by 734786710934 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:38PM (#16702677)
If you read higher up in that wiki it lists all of the money the initiative has given away so far. I'm not sure why people think that the LLC doesn't give away money.
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Re:Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizat... by ucaetano on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:42PM (#16702702)
The issue isn't that the LLC doesn't give away money. The issue is that it is a LLC.
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Re:Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizat... by mistermann on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @09:26PM (#16703800)
That's called influence, changing people's minds with relatively small amounts of money. And it works.
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Re:Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizat... by mistermann on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:35AM (#16704734)
Changing people's minds is no longer considered influential?
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