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It's almost beautifully murky that the folks using the app would come to think that what is offered to them is the Internet. This is a distilled example of what
by mattlutze 11y ago
It's almost beautifully murky that the folks using the app would come to think that what is offered to them is the Internet. This is a distilled example of what heavy ISP control of the Internet could look like.
Getting service to disadvantaged or destitute people is great. But it's so very important that Google, Facebook, Apple, Comcast, Verizon, TWC, whomever are constrained from wanton good-will Trojan horses. The tenor and breadth with which Facebook has entered their heavy-handed lot simply illustrates that sometimes, there's nothing new under the sun.
TRAI taking a very thorough, critical look at Free Basics is a good thing for the people of India.
- mtgx 11y agoIndeed. China would love it if they could start over and just offer a "Free Basics" version of the "Internet" to its billion citizens. It would make censorship easier by orders and orders of magnitude (basically as easy to censor as TV is over there).
- x5n1 11y agoFacebook is already stealing hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars worth of revenue from content creators like video makers whose videos are stolen and posted on fb's walled garden for the benefit of facebook and content pirates. i guess fb is hoping to capitalize on this trend, steal all online content in the name of providing it for the masses, and put all that ad money into its coffers. that would be longer term game with "free basics". Captive market which you can sell ads to and force content creators and their thieves to post it all to facebook.