This is not a throwaway account. Anyone can look at both my comment history and profile to determine identity. You, on the other hand, represent yourself under the guise of anonymity, yet with purported knowledge of Facebook internal processes and discussions. The ramification is that, we as a group, must now take the irrationality of "your" identity and match it up with a rational "truth" presented which is "the lev…
Please don't go off like this here. Throwaway accounts are standard and Hacker News users are perfectly capable of incorporating that datum into their interpretation. We detached this thread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14255769 and marked it off-topic.
I will point out that large entities like Facebook may misuse this forum to their liking, and that anonymous posts who directly contradict a posting here, in this group, indicates a motive that benefits the entity doing the posting. It would be different if it weren't about something highly controversial that has no means by which a truth can be determined.
FACT: Facebook will and can do anything they like to their products to increase revenue, products of which billions of people use daily to do things they think are trustworthy, when in fact they are provably not. They can also do whatever it is they are capable of doing as a gorilla entity to silence those of us who question their motives in product development.
In these types of cases, we are actually NOT perfectly capable of "incorporating datum" into our interpretations, whatever the hell that means from your perspective.
Frankly, I find dogmatic replies such as yours highly annoying and boring. We, the members of this group called HN, are mostly culpable for making this fucking mess of this thing we call the Internet, with it's mostly viral models and broken security. We've leveraged capital to "trick" users into using our products via viral growth models, all the while to obtain higher and higher payouts. That I come in here to try to make a small dent in the effort to combat this and am colloquially "smacked down" for it is an indication my gut is right about my assertions. People are greedy and will continue to do so as long as they have the means.
So, again, I will go off how I like, when I like, and those who don't like it can do what they will to silence me. I choose to have free will, and deny those who deny that choice for myself.
> -1 points by kordless 12 minutes ago
BTW, Facebook, actively monitoring this article is an asinine approach to brand management. Get a life.