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Because the access to information is extremely constrained. The Internet is much bigger than just wikipedia. There have been studies which showed that people in
by manish_gill 12y ago
Because the access to information is extremely constrained. The Internet is much bigger than just wikipedia. There have been studies which showed that people in such situations who used these so called "Free services" didn't even realize they were actually a part of the much bigger Internet, and just considered them standalone. I guess a similar situation would be people in the old days thinking AOL was synonymous with the Internet.
Do you want to live in a world where your access to information is constrained to one site only?
- disgruntledphd2 12y agoGive the choice between that and no internet (Wikipedia alone could be transformative, conditional on literacy), then yes, I'd probably make that choice. Its not ideal, but marrying the commercial incentives of telcos to get people paying for data and the gateway drug of free access seems more likely to get more people connected faster than anything else.