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Comment by zelphirkalt | Hacker News Reader

Such a statement shows, that he still has learned nothing, specifically not responsibility. For Zuckerberg it needs to financially hurt, in order to cause ethical decisions.

Well, such kind of statement will hopefully also prolong the boykott, because no one will want to seem like the beaten dog, beaten. ack into line. Hopefully the boykott will even increase.

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You can only hurt him if the outrage mob is large enough. Probably, it isn't, it's just a vocal minority, the rest of the world is going to continue using facebook.

Maybe the ask was just too big. If someone bashed me relentlessly over media, I too would be trying to mollify the mob.. but not at any price.

>For Zuckerberg it needs to financially hurt, in order to cause ethical decisions.

Hasn't he lost ~$6B in net worth because of this?

So he is worth $82B now? Do you think he really loses sleep over that? He knows this is temporary and the stock will most likely bounce back.

He did when FB's stock fell from $242 to $216 a couple days ago. Now it's back up to $234, so you do the math.

He hasn't really lost anything. Even if he was planning to liquidate all of his stock right now, and assuming he could sell it all at the current market rate, what do you think could really be bought for $6 billion? They are just numbers at this level. He hasn't lost anything tangible.

By that logic it's impossible for him to lose anything tangible so OP's comment is pointless.

> OP's comment is pointless.

We at least have consensus on something.

Not impossible, but very unlikely within the realms of the existing financial systems. You can't control billionaires using the very systems that made them billionaires.

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