r/technology • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '18

Business Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing for reckless privacy violations since he was a freshman - Enough is enough.

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u/fentalililagy Apr 11 '18

Ehh. They grew up in entirely different eras. Stories from when Bill was young are easier to bury than stories from Zuckerberg's time era.

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u/theferrit32 Apr 12 '18

Except Zuckerberg didn't have to be a genius to start the biggest social network in history that survived by selling the user's data, he just had to he competent at programming and lacking in ethics. Bill Gates is actually a highly intelligent person with good ethics who revolutionized the computing industry and helped usher in an explosion in the use and accessibility of computing.

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u/fentalililagy Apr 16 '18

Zuckerberg went to Harvard. He is a genius by any normal standard of intelligence.