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Comment by ABoldGambit | Hacker News Reader

You'll be downvoted because HN etiquette not because people necessarily disagree with your sentiment

That sentiment is of course not, originally, attributable to kps though.

Regarding people who ascribe benign intent to Facebook, it was first expressed by one M Zuckerberg. In 2004. And first reported by Business Insider in 2010.

In 2004, yes. 16 years ago. I'd hate to be judged for immature statements I made nearly two decades ago.

Whether or not it's fair to judge people for things they said 16 years ago when none of their subsequent actions or statements give any reason to believe they're a different person today isn't germane to the point, which is that Facebook/Zuckerberg's poor reputation are not new.

I guess I tire of that (second hand, mind) quote being brought up as if it's relevant to anything today.

That's my point though; it may be irrelevant in many cases, but it is relevant to the matter of how long Zuckerbeg has had a poor reputation. Such a question obviously calls for the examination of old stories and quotes.

I'd wager Facebook does much worse things with your data now than they were doing in 2004.

I think GP is downvoted because of a misunderstanding. I think GP wanted to highlight the "dumb fucks" quote of Zuckerberg, where he refers to people uploading data to his platform with that term. That quote became public in 2010, almost half a decade before 2014. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Quotes

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