Facebook creator Zuckerberg has been named Time Person of the Year 2010, a move that has stunned the majority of the magazine’s readership. Based on Time’s own audience opinion poll results, WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange won in a landslide with 382,024 ballots. That’s around 150,000 more votes compared to those cast for the online runner-up. Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even close, finishing 10th with 18,353 votes. It wasn’t necessary for him to buy his way on the list either by taking out a payday cash loan. Source of article – Julian Assange wins Time Person of the Year 2010 in online poll by MoneyBlogNewz.
Zuckerberg is awarded Time Person of the Year 2010
It would be erroneous to say Mark Zuckerberg had no potential claim to the Time Person of the Year 2010 mantle. Facebook has changed the face of the World Wide Web. Richard Stengel of the Time has his own opinion on Mark Zuckerberg. He said Zuckerberg "enables individuals to voluntarily share information with the idea of empowering them." Unlike Julian Assange, who Stengel characterizes as a man who "sees the world as filled with real and imagined enemies," Zuckerberg "sees the world as filled with potential friends."
Battle to appear with Zuckerberg and Assange
More value has come from the Zuckerberg contributions to society than Julian Assange's contributions. This is what the Time's editors think. Many say that because of WikiLeaks, most are able to question leaders and power in society with the brand new details. Assange is considered paranoid and dangerous by the belligerently loud minority. They say that knowing what the government is doing might not be something we necessarily want to know. The argument is not anything brand new. Everyone who cares about freedom knows that it is false.
Beaten by Gaga, Beck, miners and the jobless
Timer Person of the Year 2010 audience votes went, before Zuckerberg, to Lady Gaga, Glenn Beck, the Chilean miners and even jobless Americans. Perhaps it’s telling that Time ignored its audience by giving Assange recognition only as a runner-up. Another runner up was a corrupt politician. This is Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Status update from Mark Zuckerberg. Many have questioned the world due to Julian Assange. Farmville doesn't matter to him. Do you purchase Time’s friendly world Zuckerberg campfire talk, or is this a case of Time caving in to governmental pressure?
Citations
Huffington Press
huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/time-person-of-the-year-2010-mark-zuckerberg_n_796907.html
Time
time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037181,00.html
Julian Assange on why the world needs WikiLeaks
youtube.com/watch?v=bVGqE726OAo
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