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Facebook is one of the most powerful and influential companies in the world. With great power comes great responsibility, and scrutiny. Your pleading to treat t

by danso 8y ago

Facebook is one of the most powerful and influential companies in the world. With great power comes great responsibility, and scrutiny. Your pleading to treat them like garage-company hackers is absurd and out of touch with reality.

throwawaymath 8y ago
Oh come on, they pled no such thing...must we constantly do this with Facebook? There's nothing about the comment that's absurd or out of touch with reality, they're just expressing exasperation at the utterly repetitive deluge of news about Facebook and the incessently rehashed discussion that follows. I can understand going over these talking points when a sprawling piece of investigative journalism with legitimately new information is published. But we have to do this song and dance when Buzzfeed searches Google Patents with the keyword "Facebook" now too? How many patents do you think Facebook has that would draw the conspiratorial ire of HN? We'll be here day in and day out for months. While we're at it, for those downvoting - why don't you take a close look at all the similar patents registered by every tech company that competes with Facebook. Every large tech company has patents like these. This is not news, this is just outrage bait.
- danso 8y ago
  I’ve defended FB plenty of times on HN, mostly because I’ve managed to use it in moderation, to keep up distant friebdships without getting caught in the daily newsfeed grind. But the assertion that “We’re already all well aware” of FB’s issues is just horseshit. Until the NYT published their months long investigation, FB’s leadership wasn’t apparently aware that the PR firm it hired was throwing around the Soros trope to discredit its critics. FB has had plenty of days to bask in positive press, as its past stock performance shows. That it now takes its lumps over damaging revelations is not reason to cry for sympathy.
ilovecaching 8y ago
I'm saying there's nothing more for us to say about Facebook that's going to be productive, and that we should at least respect the people who work there enough to stop dragging them through the mud five times a day.
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by danso 8y ago

throwawaymath 8y ago

Oh come on, they pled no such thing...must we constantly do this with Facebook? There's nothing about the comment that's absurd or out of touch with reality, they're just expressing exasperation at the utterly repetitive deluge of news about Facebook and the incessently rehashed discussion that follows. I can understand going over these talking points when a sprawling piece of investigative journalism with legitimately new information is published. But we have to do this song and dance when Buzzfeed searches Google Patents with the keyword "Facebook" now too? How many patents do you think Facebook has that would draw the conspiratorial ire of HN? We'll be here day in and day out for months. While we're at it, for those downvoting - why don't you take a close look at all the similar patents registered by every tech company that competes with Facebook. Every large tech company has patents like these. This is not news, this is just outrage bait.

danso 8y ago
I’ve defended FB plenty of times on HN, mostly because I’ve managed to use it in moderation, to keep up distant friebdships without getting caught in the daily newsfeed grind. But the assertion that “We’re already all well aware” of FB’s issues is just horseshit. Until the NYT published their months long investigation, FB’s leadership wasn’t apparently aware that the PR firm it hired was throwing around the Soros trope to discredit its critics. FB has had plenty of days to bask in positive press, as its past stock performance shows. That it now takes its lumps over damaging revelations is not reason to cry for sympathy.

ilovecaching 8y ago

I'm saying there's nothing more for us to say about Facebook that's going to be productive, and that we should at least respect the people who work there enough to stop dragging them through the mud five times a day.

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