His latest warped perception is that everyone in the world should be on the Internet -- and he's shocked some people don't even know the Internet exists (let alone his FB web toy).
Here the story as appears in eWeek:
Is having Internet access a human right? That's a question Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg asked in a recent posting on his profile page announcing Internet.org. With help from several other companies, Zuckerberg's Facebook will attempt to improve the Internet's reach around the world and grow it from its current user base of 2.7 billion people.Later, the story indicated: [the Internet] "is extremely important to those around the world that, as of this moment, have no idea what the Internet is."
So, we have kids in Africa drinking water polluted with cow shit, but the Internet is more important.
We have entire regions with hardly enough electricity to run a water pump, but we should make sure they have the opportunity to try to keep up with Facebook's confusing, ever-changing privacy policy.
We have people murdering and raping adults and children hourly in the name of some god, or nationalist cause; but, well -- "there's an app for that!" so let's make sure they have Internet.
Skip food, clean water, safety, security, a clean bed without lice crawling on you.
Give the world the Internet. Wasn't that similar to Coke a Cola's horse shit about 'giving the world a coke' and then everything will be groovy?
I think Markey boy was raised in a privileged, exclusive universe -- and he never did complete school. Yet he's treated as a seer and hero because he happened to code some crap, get some big wigs behind him, and then conned the markets into handing him billions of dollars -- while the world's financial systems teetered on collapse and ruin.
Mark should get a real job. He should go to work at 7:30 in the morning, dress in a uniform, and deal with people -- not codes and propagandists and lawyers.
And he should remember that his view of the Internet is going to eventually disappear, as it has for netscape, AOL, and countless others.
Signed: Cynic
