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Friday, November 30, 2007 by Dave Winer.

I was sure that when Facebook backed off the privacy invasion of its "Beacon" service, the MoveOn shill would crow. We're so powerful, he says, we got the giant software company to back down.  

But as Valleywag points out, the war in Iraq still rages, Bush is still President, and MoveOn is still a creepy organization that sends out prodigious amounts of spam, and when you ask them to stop they respond with more spam. 

Facebook wants to change, but like everything in tech there are tradeoffs. Open up more (good spin) and lose some privacy (bad). They figured at Facebook that no matter what they did people would protest, so they did something extremely radical, people freaked, they backed off, and now will do something less radical, which is probably what they were planning to do all along. 

FB is a smart company run by people with IQs higher than typical creeps at PACs. God knows what they're thinking at MoveOn, but they lost my support with this incursion into techland.