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There are ways to provide free internet to millions, while NOT compromising on neutrality or providing convenient network leverage to Facebook and Reliance to p
by nileshtrivedi 12y ago
There are ways to provide free internet to millions, while NOT compromising on neutrality or providing convenient network leverage to Facebook and Reliance to pick winners.
How is X megabytes / month for free but with ads (this is network neutral) not better than Internet.org's current model? Why not let those millions decide which are the essential internet services for them? Do the poor millions don't deserve choice?
Let the user chose for himself. How hard can this be?
- fwn 12y agoThis is not about choice. (.. or we would appreciate the option to browse facebook for free.) It's about net neutrality. Unconnected people in India shouldn't destroy the bad impression we associated with this policy in the first place.
- anoncow 12y ago> with ads Why ads? Facebook would be providing internet.org for free, right? If the goal is getting more people on the internet, then internet.org could provide unfettered access to the internet and still reach their goal. However, if the aim is to get more people on their platform and increase Facebook's bottom line, then the goal is about manipulating one of the most disenfranchised people. A way out for the zero rated schemes and internet.org is to sponsor bandwidth for the end user. The telecom service providers could offer 100mb per month free to the end users and bill internet.org et al for the service.
- rjaco31 12y agoIf you provide free capped connections to the end-users (with selected services not counting toward the cap), that would be a totally different discussion indeed. But that's not the case here.