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Re:Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2... by blub on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:10AM (#18939026)
Facebook has about a decade of privacy fuck-ups, manipulation and dark patterns behind it.

Sure, they're not 100% evil, heck Hitler was a pretty swell guy with his close friends too, but at this point they should be guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around.

The deluge of anti-fb comments is the public finally having enough of their crap, so you should get used to it.

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Re:Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2... by kodablah on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:15AM (#18939060)
> The deluge of anti-fb comments is the public finally having enough of their crap

This is the trap I'm talking about. Instead of "public" what you mean are "commenters" and "writers". Assuming that is an accurate representation of the public is folly. As has become clear so many times recently, and is especially visible in election results, the loud public and the general public are often not of the same mind.

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Re:Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2... by blub on Friday January 18, 2019 @06:03PM (#18943973)
The silent public is irrelevant, because they won't vote on whether facebook gets crushing fines, broken up, etc.

They'll just use whatever is easiest and tickles their fancy.

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