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What in particular would Zuck have to do to convince you that he's "grown out of his youthful moral indiscretions"?



The most important measure is how well he weaves his core principles stated here into how Facebook makes its money (the way Jobs did with Apple).

More specifically, I worry that Internet.org is an advertiser-funded competitor to the user-funded internet as we know it, and that the interests of advertisers are in many ways contrary to the interests of individuals (e.g. w.r.t. privacy).

Information pipes are a really important building block to a thriving political and economic ecosystem, and for those blocks to be sturdy, it's important that these pipes have built-in privacy protections which remove a lot of value advertisers derive from them.




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