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Comment by grovulent | Hacker News Reader

Good ol' Arrington... he's got the courage to call em out. To really stick it to the big guys. It takes guts to say "No More!" to the corrupt and the wicked, even when such a stance might cost you personally.

I was going to comment as such on his blog...

...but I don't have a facebook account. ;)

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Wait a minute – this story broke on a blog, and then got picked up by the Daily Beast, and then by Arrington. I guess you could give Arrington credit for spreading this story to his audience, but he doesn't deserve credit for calling Facebook out in the first place.

I think your sarcasm meter may need some tuning. ;)

HN comments are usually so earnest, that I turn my sarcasm meter off here. It goes back on as soon as I leave. ;)

Arrington's playing the numbers game too - more comments on his post means more people posting it to their facebook walls, in this case, I was happy to repost this because of my dislike for everything facebook stands for, despite the fact that I too use it for my own purposes ...

it's almost impossible not to be hypocritical in this day and age unless you live in a mud hut and eat wild berries!

wow, I've never seen that before - you comment through your facebook login? That's... that's just evil.

You can also use Facebook Comments with a Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail account. But not - notice - a Google account.

Yeah ... and that is why I can't leave comments =)

If you seriously don't have a Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL account, but do have a Google account, you really ought to take a step out of Google's back pocket and sign up for one of the other huge services on the internet.

I have an Facebook account, but I refuse to use my Facebook account. It is strictly for keeping in touch with friends, not for me to use to sign in to random services, and least of all to use outside of Facebook to leave comments. I have OpenID, and a Google account, those I can use to leave comments, or just give me a couple of text boxes, I'll fill in my name, email and website and comment and click submit like I have always done it.

Facebook is the last company I am going to voluntarily hand more data over to by using their commenting system on various sites.

i can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it takes a blog and some fu money

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