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Re:Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google by yanw on Thursday May 12, 2011 @05:33AM (#2539944)
They are too young of a company to be pulling this sort of seedy stuff.

Also ‘privacy’?! I hope the irony isn’t lost on anyone. It wasn't very well thought-out, as when a net privacy panic starts spreading like wildfire through the media the consequences in political grandstanding and potential legislative action would hurt them as well.

So they come out of this looking like data-locking propaganda spreading assholes. Good job!

Referenced article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/fa...

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Re:Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google by bhavin on Thursday May 12, 2011 @08:45AM (#2540355)
They are too young of a company to be pulling this sort of seedy stuff.

I do not think this kind of seedy behavior is appropriate for company of any age, young or old. If anything, a company should get more responsible as it gets older.

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Re:Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google by tnorthcutt on Thursday May 12, 2011 @08:41AM (#2540346)
They are too young of a company to be pulling this sort of seedy stuff.

Is there a time in a company's existence when it's "ok" to do something like this?

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Re:Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google by joshfinnie on Thursday May 12, 2011 @09:28AM (#2540491)
I don't think it was meant to be "ok" but more in line with the last ditch effort. Older companies might feel as though they have pulled all the stops and this is their last effort to make an impact.

I am not saying it is okay, just trying to shine some light on what I think yanw meant.

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Re:Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google by nightpool on Thursday May 12, 2011 @10:44PM (#2543335)
>Last ditch effort.

It could also be a 'We're the establishment, we don't care what others think now' vibe, instead of a last ditch effort that causes some companies to use seedy tactics.

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Re:Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google by ignifero on Thursday May 12, 2011 @07:09AM (#2540139)
I wonder if this cold war is the reason facebook banned adsense from 3rd party apps http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291336
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