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His first point being that Zuckerberg defended Whatsapp's request for a spacious, quiet place to work is bizarre to me. That doesn't seem like a huge concession to grant a small company after purchasing them for ~$20B.

“About connecting people”. Well, and getting as many eyeballs on the newsfeed ads as (in)humanely possible. Does that count as connecting people?

Probably in the same way a company is a legal person in from of the law.

>"Don’t be passive-aggressive about it. And by the way the paid messaging that WhatsApp is rolling out now sounds pretty similar to metered messaging from my point of view..."

Takes a certain type of person to add a passive aggressive dig after telling someone not to be passive aggressive.

Passive-aggressiveness implies avoiding direct conflict. The author of this post refers to Acton not speaking up or making a good argument one way or the other, letting things evolve while resisting passively.

Also, the author is being very direct about what he thinks of Acton's behavior, he's not being passive-aggressive.

The second sentence adds nothing to his argument besides adding in a snide criticism with a trailing ellipse. That's passive aggressive to me.