Heavy editorializing in the headline. These practices instead demonstrate how flimsy and temporary the supposed harms of 'digital colonialism' can be. Any wall

Heavy editorializing in the headline. These practices instead demonstrate how flimsy and temporary the supposed harms of 'digital colonialism' can be. Any walled-garden slice of the net – 'zero rating', 'free basics', etc – hints to people how much more is out there, whetting their appetites. Given human creativity and plummeting networking-technology costs, people will figure out how to get the full boat, soon enough, by legal or underground methods. Business-model or cost-based barriers to the flow of digital information decay very quickly. And in practice, even these much-hated 'tiered'/subsidized programs mainly accelerate the discovery and deployment of work-arounds. (Where limits persist, look for police or soldiers, using violence/imprisonment to enforce political edicts.)