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I was just wondering is the 100k worth the powerful signal.

• jacquesm 16y ago
  > I was just wondering is the 100k worth the powerful signal. Don't you mean the opposite?
  • rick_2047 16y ago
    No I don't. Not many people care about there privacy (otherwise facebook would have been bust). And even if they had pledged 200% or 300% that would have been enough to send a strong signal but 1088% of pledging is just not right. There could have been so much more done with the other 80k. So many other things need money.
    • jacquesm 16y ago
      Ah, I get you now, sorry. I don't know if it is not 'right', the signal function would have been just as strong if they would have set their original goal at $100K and people would have sent them that much $. In some ways the $amount is a value that collapses a number of underlying elements to a single number, the amount of frustration around facebook privacy, the people that simply wish these kids luck and there are a number of people that hate facebook enough to put up a substantial amount of $. Which portion of that $100K ($109K already, $4500 per hour right now) comes from the 'signal' portion is hard to tell.