That's easy --- because Zuck hates people. Tit for tat. He aims to eliminate their privacy for profit.
This is bad enough but it's not all --- he has shown little regard for the "collateral damage" his profit mongering may inflict on society or the mental health of certain groups like kids and adolescents.
It seems less hate and more 100% indifference to the societal impact of his products, which almost seems worse. He is alien, strange, soulless, has this uncanny-valley-vibe and is basically "selling" us human connection. Really creepy.
I don't see people hating bill gates, the whole premise of article did not make much sense to me. Hackers used to hate him but only because window's success eating the other computing environments.
It’s not about Bill Gates, he was just mentioned because he was included in the linked YouTube clip. And people abs hate him as evidenced by the links in the article to people thinking he is chipping them
The article premise is a little funny: people hate Gates and Zuck; it is strange that people hate Gates, so I'll set that aside and consider why people hate Zuck.
Gates and Zuck are hated for the same reason: their actions are incongruent with the broader assemblage of ruling class ideas.
Gates' business practices to squash competitors by EEE, OS exclusive deals(Dell partnership agreement), pricing retaliation(Be Inc) to name a few, is incongruent with the idea that every kid learns and most internalize in econ that "competition is good".
Zuck is hated because FB's has "won" the friend-feed[1] war by dominating competition, and people have to make a choice between talking with their friends or not using FB. Again the choice isn't between competing products, it's between using the one remaining product or nothing. The end result is that Zuck's "every one will benefit from engaging with each other on FB," is incongruent with the reality that this form of social media materially makes people's lives worse which is substantiated by countless scientific[ruling class institutional] reports.
1. I'm specifically restricting this to social media outlets that serve primarily as a digital reification of meatspace friendships. So things like TikTok, fall outside that boundary, while FB & IG fall inside. G+,MyS, do as well, but they no longer exist because they've been out competed.
Social momentum. As correctly identified elsewhere, the simmering, proximal tech hate for Gates transmuted into a wide array of distal manifestations. Hate towards Gates gets re-legitimized to fit the needs of new interests.
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This is bad enough but it's not all --- he has shown little regard for the "collateral damage" his profit mongering may inflict on society or the mental health of certain groups like kids and adolescents.
Gates' business practices to squash competitors by EEE, OS exclusive deals(Dell partnership agreement), pricing retaliation(Be Inc) to name a few, is incongruent with the idea that every kid learns and most internalize in econ that "competition is good".
Zuck is hated because FB's has "won" the friend-feed[1] war by dominating competition, and people have to make a choice between talking with their friends or not using FB. Again the choice isn't between competing products, it's between using the one remaining product or nothing. The end result is that Zuck's "every one will benefit from engaging with each other on FB," is incongruent with the reality that this form of social media materially makes people's lives worse which is substantiated by countless scientific[ruling class institutional] reports.
1. I'm specifically restricting this to social media outlets that serve primarily as a digital reification of meatspace friendships. So things like TikTok, fall outside that boundary, while FB & IG fall inside. G+,MyS, do as well, but they no longer exist because they've been out competed.