He <i>chose</i> to make a public statement, no one forced him to.<p>Also, the hostility directed at Zuckerberg and Facebook is not &quot;irrational&quot;. His company uses the banner of &quot;providing internet access to all&quot; to try to create a stranglehold on how the worlds poorest people get access to information.<p>That&#x27;s basically Elliot Carver from 007:Tomorrow Never Dies. In case you haven&#x27;t seen it and the general concept of a single company having such a massive amount of control over access to information doesn&#x27;t tip you off: Carver is the bad guy in the movie.