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Yesterday Mark Zuckberg accompanied the birth of his first child, a daughter Max, with a long open letter. Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, we've found what Max might write back, and we're sharing it with you: Dear Daddy Thank you for the letter that your PR and public policy team wrote to mark my Birth, and sent to …

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  1. Public Citizen

    "Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet… more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet. If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. "

    Boy doesn't that put a nice politically correct spin on wanting another 4 billion people units to monetize for your global strip mining data and marketing operation.

    'Nuf said.

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  2. JLV
    Flame

    a Rodney Dangerfield moment?

    Seems like a lot of people have trouble just appreciating the guy for that 90+% giveaway.

    Now, you may think what you want about FB. I don't think much of it either. But he is giving away tons of money, eventually. Windows and MS are what they are, but make no mistake - the Gates foundation has kickstarted lots of research on 3rd world problems and diseases, mostly by eschewing standard govt & NGO chit-chat-bureaucracy and using an X-prize style approach instead. Freed up from inefficiencies and politics that type of funding punches above its weight.

    If Z really injects 30$B+ into worthwhile things - not better access to FB-, and if he does it intelligently, a la Gates, then it could be another huge improvement in funding critical research that, frankly Pfizer and co are too busy looking into Viagra 2.0 to address. Maybe he could even bankroll some antibiotic research, seeing as that is too ROI-deficient to interest big pharma either right now.

    IIRC Alfred Nobel wasn't totally above reproach when he set up his foundation & I'd take another FB or 2 over better chem compounds to blow up folks with. And MS, compared with a lot of the 1800s robber barons that funded philanthropy, also doesn't look too shady.

    Don't mistake this for any endorsement of FB, or its tax scheming which is contemptible. But, FFS, that level of individual donation deserves a wee bit more than all the effing sour grapes around here.

    Sorry, off to the doghouse now for daring to say something nice about the Zuck :(

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    1. Vinyl-Junkie
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      FAIL

      Re: a Rodney Dangerfield moment?

      "that level of individual donation"

      What level of individual donation? He has given (or rather is going to give, over a number of years, so he can claim tax benefits every year he makes a "donation") his personal holding in FB to The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a Limited Liability Company with charitable status.

      As an LLC CZI does not have to do any charitable work, in fact it is free to invest in whatever it wants, including investing for profit. Rather more to the point (and probably why it's timed with the birth of their child) when Zuckerberg and Chan have popped their clogs there will be no estate taxes on their FB holdings; as they will be owned by the LLC, not by the individuals.

      Tax avoidance with smoke and mirrrors that makes it looks like they are doing something philanthropic!

      This is smoke and

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  3. Seajay#

    [citation needed]

    "Silicon Valley companies like yours pile up huge wealth by destroying value in every other part of the economy"

    Where does that come from? Sure, silicon valley companies may not be morally wonderful places and they might be doing much less good than they should be. I think there's pretty much universal agreement that they need to be paying a lot more tax. But all of that is just a failure to be as good as they could be, they aren't destroying anything.

    The fact is that even though he's a dick, by giving away £30Bn, even if very inefficiently he will almost certainly do more good for the world than Mother Teresa ever managed. And you know what, good on him he didn't have to do that.

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    1. Vinyl-Junkie
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      Re: [citation needed]

      " by giving away £30Bn"

      Except he's doing no such thing. He's moving it from a personal holding to an LLC with charitable status, which he has set up.

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  4. GeezaGaz

    The most pointless article on el reg....

    ....Ever

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  5. EddieD
    Joke

    Okay, she's young...

    but a blastula isn't a single cell. It's at the stage where the ball of cells starts developing a hollow, fluid filled interior (the blastocoel), the cells start to develop identities (Vogt's fate map), etc.

    I know, she's wee, but they have to start learning sooner or later.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Friends don't friends use Facebook!!

    Only time "the Zuck" slithers out from under his rock is when he smells a profit or a tax break.

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  7. Joerg

    How Facebook evades taxes...

    And the justice system doesn't work and doesn't exist at all.

    These people are making a pathetic public announcement on evading taxes on $45billion and no one dares touching them.

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  8. fuzzie

    Quite insightful how Mommy's been relegated to supporting cast role in all this. After all she's been doing all the heavy lifting and now gets to pose all supportive and doe-eyed while Daddy takes centre stage. Way to go millenial couple.

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  9. Vinyl-Junkie
    Stop

    Stop saying Auckerberg has given his fortune "away" or "to charity"....

    Here is the real story; he's giving the money to himself, and far from paying more tax himself he'll be able to claim tax back from the American government.

    http://says.com/my/news/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-mark-zuckerberg-donating-99-of-his-fortune-to-charity

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  10. Sil

    Article of the year

    Best article of the year on The Reg!

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  11. T. F. M. Reader

    Dear Mark, here is how you can really make your daughter's world better than ours...

    Just shut down the company!

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  12. Gis Bun

    Max forgot that while Zuckerberg's fortunate is currently at $45 billion, assuming she won't have any siblings, she may not inherit not much more that $450 million after per parent kick the [money] bucket as her old man plans to give away almost all to charity.

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  13. The Dark Newt

    Register - Jaded??

    I was a little sad reading this "so called reply" whoever Mark is, he is also a new father and everyone shares that experience in their own way. That open letter was his way of expressing or sharing the joy he must be feeling. Whatever people may think of him, his company or Silicon Valley, an open letter to his daughter is not really a platform that should be used to make a point.

    For me, all I can think is congratulations I hope you enjoy every moment of being a father and I hope it brings you a new perspective on life and the world. Changing things for the better often start with simply a wish or a sentiment to do it, I can't remember ever seeing a worthwhile change occuring from venting against something that was intended to be a positive thing.

    Happy Xmas everyone

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  14. Bennito

    Interesting

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  15. Lou 2
    Facepalm

    PS:

    PS: Thanks for nothing Dad! That feel good feeling you had when you squandered my billions - yes mine, all mine - si going to wear off in the next twenty years. Just around the time when I would need to buy my first super car - or jet or whatever.

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