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Privileged people with Internet complaining that people without Internet access get free access to (some part of) the Internet. What are you doing to provide fr
by Grue3 11y ago
Privileged people with Internet complaining that people without Internet access get free access to (some part of) the Internet. What are you doing to provide free Internet access to the poor?
- shubhamjain 11y agoPrivileged people complain because a pure business move is being fed to the less-aware as a huge philanthropic effort. Having been to many villages, I can say without doubt that so called free-internet will hardly bring any improvement in people's lives. How do you except a person who hardly knows how to use a phone to use the internet productively? No doubt, information access is important for human development but sorry, I don't have a reason to believe people who can put Internet to a good purpose will have any trouble paying for it.
- Grue3 11y agoThe most famous scientist in my country [1] had to travel 1000 km on foot from his home village to university to get decent education. He then proceeded to make a lot of important discoveries in many areas of science. Now imagine if we had Wikipedia in every village. Imagine how many more people could make use of their talents if they had access to the basic information to get them started. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov