In snub to WikiLeaks, Zuckerberg wins TIME Person of Year 2010

[Joanne98]

Oh for pity's sake. Mark Zuckerberg? Is this really your idea of the person who's had the biggest impact on the world this year? It sure as heck isn't mine.

The people's choice was, overwhelmingly, Julian Assange. Assange got more votes than the next two highest candidates combined (Lady Gaga and the Prime Minister of Turkey, in case you were wondering). Zuckerberg ran a very distant 10th, with fewer than 5% of the number of votes cast for Assange.

Dear TIME Magazine, what's the point of asking for votes, if you're going to go ahead and choose an unpopular choice? It's a simply juvenile defense to say, "TIME's editors who choose the actual Person of the Year reserve the right to disagree."

And it's no use blaming the 4chan.org /b/tard Anonymous army for stuffing the votes. If you really thought that was the case, you should have disqualified Assange, rather than meekly naming him as runner up, alongside The Tea Party (a political movement that, by the way, is turning the U.S. into an international laughing stock).

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17534/in_snub_to_wikileaks_zuckerberg_wins_time_person_of_year_2010

[NYCGirl]

1. IMO, if Lady Gaga was the runner up, how good was that poll?

[Ken Burch]

5. Oh come on, man...when's the last time the prime minister of Turkey had a hit single?

n/t.

[NYCGirl]

8. True, but his new CD rawks! NT

[Ken Burch]

2. It's probably because the Time editorial board liked it that Zuckerberg

STARTED his rise to wealth and power by dissing the personal appearance of his ex-girlfriends(or, in some cases, of the large number of women who wouldn't lower themselves to ever BEING his girlfriends)online.

TIME always has a warm place in it's heart for people who hates them some women.

Remember, this is the SAME magazine that once declared that Ally McBeal was "The New Face Of Feminism". And that gave Katie Roiphe a national forum to spout her "there's no such thing as date rape" spew.

They might have given Assange the nod if he was JUST a guy who was accused of sexual offenses.

[Joanne98]

4. LOL

[Demeter]

6. Too true.

[ejpoeta]

3. facebook has changed the world. i guess. i understand how you feel...

and i think i remember them making a point on the today show about how the online voting has no bearing on their decision. imagine if the tea party assholes loaded up those votes for lady gaga just to make sure it wasn't assange or something.... i think it's better it's not a popularity contest. but in the end, it's just a big media blitz to sell magazines.

[Ken Burch]

7. I prefer to think that it's because the Tea Party guys

secretly enjoy dressing up like Lady Gaga.

Not that you'd WANT to see Glenn Beck in bubble wrap or a meat dress, but still...

[Democrats_win]

9. So who really should be "person" of the year?

Corporate cash? (they stole an election!)

Obama?

Palin?

Haiti aid workers?

The unemployed?

Educators?

Fraud Street workers? (They're back!)

Banksters (They're selling usury credit cards again and increasing bank fees.)

Some one else?