I really hope nobody takes this guys post seriously. For the one situation that I am personally familiar with, Western companies taking an interest in Indian v

I really hope nobody takes this guys post seriously. For the one situation that I am personally familiar with, Western companies taking an interest in Indian villages has been a great boon to the locals. There are many idealists in the West that don't understand what the impact is of even simple things that they take for granted. If a man provides fresh drinking water to a remote Indian village, and if the water comes in bottles with advertisements for products, it might seem evil to this guy, but actually, from the point of view of the villager, its still an unambiguously good thing. Nobody at the bottom of the Pyramid cares whether or not they have to log into Google in order to access their free online classes from EdX, Udacity, Khan academy etc. They are just thankful to have that access, which they did not have in the past. And beyond that, its not like they cannot create a profile with Google and then ignore it, and connect to the Internet outside of Google products. Its not like Google blocks access to other search engines, or to other competing services. You still have access to the Internet. Also, its not even clear that you HAVE to make a Google ID to access Loon internet. This poster should try some other mechanism ... some non-corporate mechanism, and try to bring some benefits to India. If he succeeds, then I will support his model. I certainly won't withdraw support from Google over his bullshit blog post which has zero touch with reality.