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One thing not mentioned in the article, is the problems with piracy - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7eyg/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-ango

• userbinator 9y ago
  If you give people an artificially restricted free resource, they'll find a way to break out. This fits with the observation that some of the most creative people I know are from Eastern Europe and former-Soviet countries. Restricting what people can do tends to, to put it bluntly, force them to think more. The darker side of this is that companies try very hard to make users think that they aren't restricted, just to stop them from "thinking too much" and thus getting out of the company's control. A 20-year-old developer in Paraguay found a vulnerability in Facebook Messenger that allowed people to use Free Basics to tunnel through to the "real" internet I predicted that would happen; but is that really a vulnerability or just the intrinsic way communication works? It's the digital analogy of asking someone to go to the library and read pages from a book to you, because you don't have access.
  • srtjstjsj 9y ago
    Vulnerability simply means communication that is unwanted by someone.
• toomanybeersies 9y ago
  It's basically Tragedy of the Commons isn't it?
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  What is the aphorism you (seem to) have in mind?