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My thoughts too. Get the money, and do something useful with it. It was an expensive and still pretty meaningless gesture. Now, maybe he didn’t want to spend more time at FB and bought his freedom with that money. Perfectly fine, but please don’t spin it like some morally applaudable act.


He already did. He'd gotten a few billion dollars out of the acquisition by then. He invested $50 million of that into the Signal Foundation, and I would hope he will invest more in the future.


Even taking the $850m and setting it on fire is $850m that Facebook doesn’t have to buy the next Instagram.


I'm going to be cynical again, but everyone is justifying every single action they perform as something morally applaudable nowadays.

example that I see every day: taking the train for convenience, but spinning it as "saving the planet"




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