Perhaps my point was too subtle. Yeah it was a cheesy play on a line from that Facebook movie, but it hid what I really wanted to say, which is:

There is no number of votes that could possibly stop Facebook from doing whatever they wanted to do anyway. It's an illusion of choice. It doesn't matter how many people vote 'nay' vs. the number that vote 'yay'. The real figure Facebook is looking at is the number of people that care enough about the issue enough to cast the vote, vs. the number of people who don't care / don't know it is an issue, which to them is _every_ other user.

Half a million out of over a billion users is a very small percentage indeed. And Facebook couldn't be happier about it.