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> pictures justifies shitting all over a country's chances of building out proper infrastructure If you rely on government to build free internet access infras

> pictures justifies shitting all over a country's chances of building out proper infrastructure If you rely on government to build free internet access infrastructure for poor people, it could take long time. While on the other hand, fb has managed to build something and convinced telcos to give it for free to poor and promised that they will soon see those people converting into a full-internet user and will pay you the normal rate. So, actually the grand plan is to get them to use full internet, which is not bad for either parties I think.

fucking_tragedy 11y ago
Where in FB business plan does it say that they'll invest all of that money to provide a locked-in service just to make it easier and cheaper for people to move from that service to one that doesn't prioritize FB content over their competitors'? I don't see that anywhere. It's almost as if there is a lot of money in getting a class of people to think FB is the internet by cutting off any real initiative for full internet access.