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Not-really-rhetorical question: how much less contentious would internet.org be, if it were [branded] say... facebook.net? IMO quite a bit. The substantive cri
by aaroninsf 11y ago
Not-really-rhetorical question: how much less contentious would internet.org be, if it were [branded] say... facebook.net?
IMO quite a bit. The substantive criticisms would be unchanged; but two accelerants would be removed from the fire: the insinuation that the service 'is' the internet or some substantive subset of it; and that it is a charitable undertaking first and foremost.
- ceras 11y agoIIRC the product is not longer called internet.org anyway; it's now called "free basics."
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoIt's still a "project of Internet.org", alongside Facebook's Internet-providing drone things.
- newsignup 11y agoInitially, I had seen people opposing on just that fact "they are misleading people by calling it internet.org", most of them.
- fabulist 11y agoMaybe it would be less contentious, but paying telecom companies to deliver Facebook for free is anticompetative and I'm not a fan of monopolies or monopolizing tactics. In my mind, this is an even bigger issue than their lack of frankness.