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Theory 1: It’s because Russia, a market with a very small iOS user base, can pressure Apple into doing what it wants.

Theory 2: It’s because Telegram raised more than a billion dollars for a virtual currency that does an end-run around Apple’s in-app payments.

Based on Apple’s past actions, which one is more likely?

It’s a company created by the Chinese government. They’ll just create another one to replace it.

How is this not an illegal state subsidy? The WTO is a joke.

Dissent is in. The old guard is being slowly boiled alive, but they’re blind to it.

You’ll have lots of opportunities for jobs, because lots of employers will want to look morally self-righteous.

Yes, it does. And your client side “steps to reproduce” do not, in fact, reproduce server-side client fingerprinting to correlate between two disconnected browser identities.

Cultural rot, combined with an unrepentant leader, means the company can’t be saved.

You would probably integrate this into a self contained application binary.

Facebook executives repeat this line that they don’t sell or share your data. Except, they share your data, because that’s what got them into this mess. Why don’t they ever explain what they actually DO do with the data?

You are mistaken. At Facebook, the devils advocate would argue in favor of government regulation.

You and all the other former Facebook employees sound like people who are working hard to defend the money you made there. Because the dirty looks members of the general public now give those who made their money from Facebook probably gets to you.

Unless you were there since 2005, Boz was a higher up with more seniority, so the original memo was more of a put up or shut up piece than an RFC.

Whenever anyone tells you that Facebook and Palantir have nothing to do with each other, remember that when Facebook vacated its original headquarters on University Ave, Palantir moved in.

And Peter Thiel indirectly funded Cambridge Analytica through a PAC. And he is STILL on the board of Facebook! Today!

This is cute, but does little to address tracking via IP and basic behavioral sniffing. Facebook buys lots of third party datasets, including data from ISPs (actually, it is given to them).

Are we going to talk about the fact that a whole bunch of these employees are former elected officials, or related to one? Which is part of why Zuckerberg isn’t actually concerned about the political fallout?

FarmVille had the benefit of being owned by an early Facebook investor, Mark Pincus. It was favoritism all around.