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Maybe this? https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/02/facebook-free-basics-quietly-pulled-myanmar/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/02/facebook-free-basics-qui... Th
by IncRnd 8y ago
Maybe this? https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/02/facebook-free-basics-quietly-pulled-myanmar/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/02/facebook-free-basics-qui...
There is also this from 2016 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3032646/internet/the-surprising-truth-about-facebooks-internetorg.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3032646/internet/the-s...
So even if Free Basics "sites" were actual sites on the Internet (which they're not), it would be 0.00000005 percent of the web. The real Internet is at least 20 million times bigger than Facebook's fake Internet. It's like McDonald's giving a poor person a free sesame seed and claiming credit for giving them a free Big Mac. The other important difference for Facebook is that Free Basics offers a version of the "web" without any of Facebook's competitors.