[ahartmetz]

Besides refuting some maybe overly dramatic criticism, you also have nothing to hide. Why are you using a throwaway account?

[throwaway334488]

Company policy (literally almost any company) prohibits talking about the company publicly. Simply because any words can be misinterpreted by bad journalists looking for the next sensation.

[ahartmetz]

So Facebook has something to hide. And you are exercising civil disobedience, which means that you also have something to hide. This argument isn't just sophistry. Think about it.

[dang]

It was fine to ask a sincere question about a throwaway account, but please don't push the point. People shouldn't be hounded for sharing information about situations they know a lot about, such as their employers. We don't want to disincentivize people from showing up to add information, and if they feel a need to create a temporary account to do that with, that's fine.

Routinely using throwaways is not fine, though. All this is in the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[lazypenguin]

So ironic. Exercises his right to privacy/anonymity but questions those that lament the loss of theirs.

[dang]

Please keep personal swipes out of your comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[throwaway334488]

You must be talking about CA again, the issue resolved many years before the first post on HN. That’s because there’s really nothing against FB.