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Facebook has been actively targeting developing countries that lack Internet infrastructure. They offer a walled garden consisting of Facebook and a few other s
by freyir 9y ago
Facebook has been actively targeting developing countries that lack Internet infrastructure. They offer a walled garden consisting of Facebook and a few other sites for free. They initially called it Internet.org, but it’s since been renamed Free Basics.
I guess the concern is that people will confuse Facebook for the Internet, and they’ll think they’re getting the Internet for free. It then becomes very difficult for a real ISP offering full Internet access to enter the market.
- juststeve 9y agoyou got a link?
- freyir 9y agohttps://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet-org/ https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet... I don’t know if they have “monopolies”, as OP claimed, but these are the countries where they operate: https://info.internet.org/en/story/where-weve-launched/ https://info.internet.org/en/story/where-weve-launched/
- juststeve 9y agook thanks yeah i get the vibe