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That is true, but moral standpoints are not black/white and Facebooks moral standpoint in the whole privacy debate isn't quite the strongest. Facebook will basically take any interaction with them as a "yes".

Also, Facebook didn't ask me when my friends gave my phone number and address to them.

Zuckerberg has repeatedly shown a lot of moral flexibility on those issues - so the irony is definitely there.



ok, I concede that point, but none of my friends are giving my info to the NSA, either.


Sure, but we are still talking about Zuckerberg trying to make a moral argument about vast personal data collection.




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