I heard commentators make the same argument when Facebook was trying to push a Facebook-preferring free "basic internet" in India, which India rejected. It turn

I heard commentators make the same argument when Facebook was trying to push a Facebook-preferring free "basic internet" in India, which India rejected. It turns out the terms of these ostensibly beneficial deals generally only benefit the western corporation pushing them and aren't great for the people of the recipient country. Yet then too there was this sentiment of "Poor people in India should be grateful they're getting any kind of internet at all!"