Ah, the sweet ironies (and hypocrisies) in life. There’s something beautifully creepy about a person fighting so hard against the same thing they fought so hard to create. In today’s case, the culprit is Mark Zuckerberg, the young man more responsible than perhaps any other for his generation’s obsession with displaying itself publicly on the internet. The New York Times has reported that a judge turned down Facebook’s request to have “unflattering documents” about Zuckerberg removed from the website of Harvard magazine 02138.

At the center of the issue is an article in 02138 about Facebook’s evolution and the subsequent lawsuit from classmates asserting Zuckerberg stole the idea and computer source code to begin his own project. The New York Times calls the article “sympathetic to the plaintiffs’s account and questions the validity of Mr. Zuckerberg’s claims.”

The 02138 article also contains Zuckerberg’s handwritten application to Harvard, and a journal that “contains biting comments about himself and others.”

Perhaps Gawker summarized it best, saying, “This is the same dude who made billions from a website that allows you to let everyone in your friend network know when you are peeing.”

And now he’s mad that a private persona he would like to keep that way has entered the public domain. Yes, the sweet ironies and hypocracies in life: why do we love them so much?