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I notice the Facebook response is all written in present tense - technically not specifying whether they were abusing the laxness of android v16 up until Oct 2017...

And I trust everything Facebook say precisely as much a Zuckerberg told us all we should with his much-quoted quip "They trust me. Dumb fucks."

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I feel like if you should quote a very inflammatory and controversial "quip" you should at least provide a source. Maybe I'm the only one on HN that hasn't heard about it, but even so, sources shouldn't be omitted.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

So, do you feel it's irrelevant to mention that it was said in a chat conversation, in 2004 when Zuckerberg was 20 years old? I'm not saying that makes what he said completely fine, but it's not irrelevant for context.

I wasn't the one you originally replied to but it looks like you are shifting the goal posts here.

> Maybe I'm the only one on HN that hasn't heard about it, but even so, sources shouldn't be omitted.

You asked for sources and I merely provided one such source as "proof" that Zuck actually did use those words in the past.

Sorry, you're right that I mixed you up with whoever posted the original comment. I do think context matters though, of course that makes no sense to say specifically to you.

I did say it was "a quip" - and I'm sure quite a few people here understood the context - apologies for those who didn't.

For me, it's kind of a geek culture equivalent of a pop culture reference - not quite as ubiquitously recognised as "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!", but probably (in this audience) as recognisable as 'Quoth the Raven, "Eat my shorts!"'

this quip is mentioned here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

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