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$400 million could help a lot of sick and hungry people. I'd dig ditches by hand for 3 months to be able to give that money to Doctors Without Borders.

Dig ditches sure. Do work that you fundamentally disagree with though? I mean where do your principles come in to the work you are doing? You choose not to rob banks to support DWB, so you have a line you yourself aren't willing to cross.

I don't begrudge him one bit for his decision.

Exactly. Even if you don't want it for yourself you could at least milk Facebook for some good purpose. But as I said in an earlier comment, there must have been some negotiation between them and FB

Sure, but I think about it this way: every cent you can take away from Facebook is a cent they can't spend on more spying.

They left and now Facebook is gonna do it anyways and is gonna cost them 400 million less.

$400 million is still a lot when you're just barely a billionaire.