[megaman821]

I don't get why people have such a problem with this. If Hitler says genocide is wrong, does the fact that it came from Hitler make it any less true.

The arguments put forth either stand on their own or they don't. The fact that they came from a Facebook engineer is irrelevant.

[lukeschlather]

Google is not on trial here. As Facebook showed, my data in Google is totally available to me should I need it.

He's explicitly accusing Google of committing a crime they didn't commit, even as he himself is guilty of it.

[axavier]

Google did break the Orkut data exporter, then completely removed it when people were trying to switch out of Orkut. I'm not sure how that's accusing them of committing a crime they didn't commit - it's a fact.

[rapind]

In your analogy though does he say it with a (not so) hidden agenda?