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This is economic imperialism. The underlying current of thought is that India is too poor/stupid/backwards to get its population online. That's pretty fucking r
by Ar-Curunir 11y ago
This is economic imperialism. The underlying current of thought is that India is too poor/stupid/backwards to get its population online. That's pretty fucking racist.
And Facebook is hardly doing this out of any altruistic tendencies. These poor people, who've only ever seen a facebook-ized internet, become a cash cow for FB - they can exploit them however they please.
I trust the EFF much more than I trust FB:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/internetorg-not-neutral-not-secure-and-not-internet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/internetorg-not-neutra...
- icebraining 11y agoThis is economic imperialism. The underlying current of thought is that India is too poor/stupid/backwards to get its population online. That's pretty fucking racist. Then India can prove them wrong but offering free full Internet access to its citizens, so that Facebook's racism costs them their investment.