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Re:A letter to our daughter by andreyf on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:59PM (#10660124)
I don't think cynicism and criticism are the same here. This is the man that about a decade ago who called his users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their personal data [1]. The same man who used failed password logins to Facebook to access a journalist's email address [2].

Now he's giving 99% of his wealth to a charity he controls. This is an awesome step: dynastic wealth is stupid. However, it will take a few more good deeds to convince me that he's grown out of his youthful moral indiscretions.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

2. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-in...

Re:A letter to our daughter by gnaritas on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:54AM (#10661425)
> Now he's giving 99% of his wealth to a charity he controls.

Which is just a way to setup a comfy retirement where you make more from the money than you have to give away to be considered a charity and everywhere you go is now "business" as long as you give some money away on the trip. Make 30% on investments, give away 10%, avoid all kinds of taxes and appear charitable all the while still in control of the whole fortune. Color me skeptical.

Re:A letter to our daughter by onewaystreet on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @02:42AM (#10661544)
> Make 30% on investments, give away 10%

Any profits made from investments go back into the charity's holdings. This is a good thing.

Re:A letter to our daughter by gnaritas on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:39AM (#10663554)
"Charity" being Zuck's control. I don't think it's a good thing, I think it's a fancy way to avoid taxes (victimizing american taxpayers) while maintaining control of your fortune. When he gives his money to a charity that isn't his other pocket, then it's charity.
Re:A letter to our daughter by visakanv on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:43AM (#10661391)
What in particular would Zuck have to do to convince you that he's "grown out of his youthful moral indiscretions"?
Re:A letter to our daughter by andreyf on Thursday December 03, 2015 @02:25AM (#10668283)
The most important measure is how well he weaves his core principles stated here into how Facebook makes its money (the way Jobs did with Apple).

More specifically, I worry that Internet.org is an advertiser-funded competitor to the user-funded internet as we know it, and that the interests of advertisers are in many ways contrary to the interests of individuals (e.g. w.r.t. privacy).

Information pipes are a really important building block to a thriving political and economic ecosystem, and for those blocks to be sturdy, it's important that these pipes have built-in privacy protections which remove a lot of value advertisers derive from them.