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To be completely honest, I don't think this was a great deal for the users from the start. It seemed like Facebook prying on an uneducated, easily manipulated a

• Tenoke 5y ago
  When the choice is no internet vs only having Facebook the latter simply gives you more options. It's not a curated news site, you can at least talk to friends for free and only join whatever groups or pages are relevant to you which is a pure improvement over not having any options.
  • osrec 5y ago
    Isn't that like saying the weirdo luring kids with candy in a playground is giving the kids options because they'll probably enjoy the candy?! I'd rather not take the candy.
    • MisterSandman 5y ago
      It's more like the weirdo giving malnourished kids in an orphanage free candy in attempt to take advantage of them and exploit them.
      • osrec 5y ago
        Dare I say, that's even worse, yet more fitting.
    • mdoms 5y ago
      No.
    • zaphirplane 5y ago
      Comparing an adult making a choice that “we” think is bad compromise Is very far form a child I mean what about car financing that seems exploitative, credit cards, coke ads, iPhone ads I mean they are over priced
• tguvot 5y ago
  this is kinda tipa of the iceberg of what fb did in this area. they also did a bunch of fiber in africa and i think south america in order to enable local internet/mobile providers. a bunch of software/hardware initiatives to allow setup wisps for cheap, etc. there is (or was) entire department dedicated to building/enabling internet/mobile infra in third world countries
  • nopenopenopeno 5y ago
    *second world cities in third world countries Building fiber infrastructure alone doesn’t help the impoverished. If anything, it just exacerbates inequality and integrates the local elite with the first world, who then turn their back on the local poor. Globalism and imperialism are different constructs with the same ends.
    • ch4s3 5y ago
      This is an asinine take. Local elites were probably already connected with the broader world. There are drove of case studies demonstrating real benefits to the poor int he global south from internet access [1]. Having access to weather info, commodity prices, and digital banking are revolutionizing small hold farming in a lot of African countries. If you know how much your crop sells for you no longer need to trust the word of the commodity trader who comes to your farm, you now have more power to negotiate. It's frankly stupid and offensive to equate internet access with imperialism. [1] https://www.un.org/africarenewal/web-features/africa-leapfrogging-digital-agriculture https://www.un.org/africarenewal/web-features/africa-leapfro...
      • nopenopenopeno 5y ago
        Imagine that. The United Nations promoting a capitalist scheme. We gave (some of) them internet, but denied them the rights to produce a vaccine in the middle of a global pandemic!!! What could possibly be more offensive than that? Not just offensive to them, or some of them, but to the entire human race. Capitalism is an absolute scourge.
• solveit 5y ago
  This comment is reasonable but the discussion lower in the thread devolved to something insane and infantilising.