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FTC as Blindly Optimistic as Anyone Else

posted by janrinok on Sunday April 27 2014, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the lets-throw-away-$19B dept.

Boxzy writes:

As someone who knows Facebook and as an ex-Whatsapp user, the FTC are hilariously attempting to bully Facebook into not monetising their purchase of Whatsapp for $19 Billion.

Does Anyone At All Think This Will Work?

They paid $19 Billion! Not monetise it? Are they nuts?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 27 2014, @05:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 27 2014, @05:16AM (#36780)

    The summary contains three rhetorical questions out of five sentences, plus sneer words (e.g., "bully", "nuts") and a dangling modifier thrown in for good measure. Though, the modifier dangles only if the FTC aren't the ones who "knows Facebook" and are an ex-Whatsapp user. Who's to tell?

    I really want to like Soylent News, I do, but the signal-to-noise ratio here isn't outstanding, mostly due to sloppiness. Editors, stick to facts. Let readers arrive at their own opinions. And use good enough grammar such that readers don't need to re-parse a sentence to figure out its meaning.

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