[type0]

> so a profitable deal overall.

I don't think that facebook is good for openness of the web and/or society as a whole, the amount of power without oversight that this Zuck has is simply scary.

Edit: here's some food for thought- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

[rbanffy]

Weren't you talking about investing public money?

[type0]

Also, I'm all for it when paypayers money go to new struggling but promising startups, fb is not one of them. I can't really see why they would need governmental financial help other that to support corrupt politicians.

[rbanffy]

Is the question about what returns on the investment or about who the government invests in?

[type0]

They got subsidies, which is which is far from beeing an investment. And FB isn't very eager to pay taxes either.