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The bad idea that a free walled garden is better than nothing, or that it's worth sacrificing network neutrality in order to increase overall access. And to gi
by zaroth 10y ago
The bad idea that a free walled garden is better than nothing, or that it's worth sacrificing network neutrality in order to increase overall access.
And to give a little more background, Facebook was trying to get free "internet" access away in India, but it wasn't really internet access it was actually just a Facebook walled garden. The local population organized and ultimately the government rightly told them to piss off.
Because being able to access a diverse set of viewpoints on the Internet is not, actually, a "privilege" but rather the central point of the whole affair.