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Do you think it is better to hamper the market forces even more?
by fiatjaf 11y ago
Do you think it is better to hamper the market forces even more?
- pbkhrv 11y agoI see it as being more complicated than that. Quoting wikipedia on "Free market" [1], "A free market is a market economy system ... in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority." One can argue that programs like Facebook's "Free Basics" that just got banned [2] are a "price-setting monopoly". And now that the ban is in place, you have more "intervention by a government". That looks to me like India didn't really have "free market" for internet services before this ruling either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market [2] http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/08/india-bans-zero-rating-internet-schemes/ http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/08/india-bans-zero-rating-in...