This article falls into the common trap of being a concern troll by assuming the next generation is not as clever as the one of the author's. There was a time w

This article falls into the common trap of being a concern troll by assuming the next generation is not as clever as the one of the author's. There was a time when AOL was "going online" too. Corporate interests always go in this direction and the hackers hack around it eventually. If Facebook runs a line to a village that only allows Facebook-only access, you can bet your bottom dollar that that connection and hardware will be hacked and exploited to its maximum effect, software restrictions be damned, by the very teenagers the author assumes are too stupid, ignorant, or whatever, to do it. I'd rather this be the status quo than no connection at all. What we really need to be worried about is not if Facebook is going to restrict Facebook-only access with software and hardware tricks, but if the local government is going to back those restrictions up with guns. Send the Mexican teenagers locked down phones, sure, but also leave it up to them what they want to do with them. Somehow I doubt a Mexican village's law enforcement is going to spend its time chasing down teenagers who are abusing their Facebook-subsidized Internet connection. Who knows, maybe Zuckerberg himself will ignore this too, much like Microsoft and Adobe have never come down hard on kids pirating their software since it's in their best interest the kids learn to hack and use their software in the long run. The Facebook-only aspect to this program may very well just be what was necessary to get the board to sign off on everything. (This is all speculation of course.) It's in Zuck's best interest not to just get people to use Facebook, but for kids to continue to learn how to hack and build stuff so he can hire the smartest ones.