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So - I wonder how Facebook will respond to their market penetration and lock-in effort being declared illegal, as granting access to one set of sites for free a
by madaxe_again 11y ago
So - I wonder how Facebook will respond to their market penetration and lock-in effort being declared illegal, as granting access to one set of sites for free and not allowing access to others surely falls under this legislation.
I expect that they'll continue business as usual, and will drag out the battle until they have a captive and indoctrinated audience (after all, they control the content, so you can be sure folks won't be reading about this, but they will be reading about how internet.org gives you freedom and is great and wonderful) who will push the government in favour of banning non-discriminatory pricing.
- rasz_pl 11y agoThey will offer all of the web in free package, throttled to 100bytes/second. Because current legislation was solely about pricing.
- rohmish 11y agoNow that's something we actually can accept. 100bytes/sec is too low for any practical use but 64kbps-128kbps is a good speed.
- icebraining 11y agothey control the content, so you can be sure folks won't be reading about this Unless they just go to https://www.facebook.com/netneutralityin/ https://www.facebook.com/netneutralityin/
- mbrutsch 11y agoYou are undermining the popular narrative with your facts and what-not.
- ikeboy 11y agoI've been here over a year, so I'm allowed [0] to complain that this comment is contributing to HN morphing into reddit. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Manishearth 11y agoI think there were reports of savetheinternet.in posts being shadowbanned (i.e, a post containing this link is not visible in others' TLs) or something, but I don't recall exactly what was happening or if it was verifiable.