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Comment by bretpiatt | Hacker News Reader

Nothing more than a PR / shill piece with a bare bones disclosure at the bottom, "Washington Post Chairman Donald E. Graham is a member of Facebook's board of directors."

Time to read the NYT and WSJ for the real view on how mass print media views the privacy issue. I won't waste 10 seconds reading another Post piece on Facebook.

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Who cares "how mass print media views the privacy issue"? I prefer to read facts and decide for myself.

Here are some facts that I got from this piece:

  - They have heard and discussed our feedback.
  - They are responding to the demand for simpler privacy controls by giving simpler privacy controls.
  - They are giving an easy way to opt out of ALL third party services.

I, for one, am happy to hear these things, but will be reserving judgement for when the privacy changes are launched.

What? It's not a Post piece. It's an op-ed written by Mark Zuckerberg. Of course it paints Facebook in a favorable light. That doesn't mean it has no value.

I keep having an image of Donald E. Graham hovering over Zuke and waiting for him to complete the article in long script and then handing it off to some flunky to be typed. Then Donald says "good job Zuke" and pats him on the head and Zuke smiles and says "yeah...privacy - my ass". And both leave the conference room they were in laughing manically.

Of course...that's my imagination...it runs wild.

Zuck.

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