Facebook made a grievous PR error taking back the internship. Regardless of who he is, my peers are thinking twice about joining Facebook now due to what looks like a petty and vindictive administration.

Those who made this decision probably won't see the bad fruits of it directly, but I know of two people who are very talented who turned down offers they were about to accept due to the news.

Those of us who have worked at Google or apple or other top firms know what vindictive and short sighted administration looks like and what a bad sign it is for the environment.

And that's aside from the fact that what the kid did embodies the "hacker way" held up by Mark. Signs of a backwards company having an identity crisis.