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- HTTPS is a premium feature not included in Internet.org's package... - Internet services/sites are whitelisted - essentially by Facebook. - ISP tracking is
by spenvo 11y ago
- HTTPS is a premium feature not included in Internet.org's package...
- Internet services/sites are whitelisted - essentially by Facebook.
- ISP tracking is baked into consumers' access. (Like Verizon's SuperCookies, which have just been rolled back for US consumers.)
- Select developers get to develop for the web ... but based off permission from higher ups. Because we all trust Facebook as a caretaker of a dev platform... we already know there will arbitrary rate-limiting for these devs.
The best part of Facebook's story was that Zuck didn't need permission to build it. How ironic...
Facebook has hijacked the word "Internet" for this initiative.
At best this is a whitewashed and severely limited offering that works against the push for real Internet access. And it sets all of the worst kinds of precedents for first-time users across the world.
As for the PR spin around this campaign, some words that come to mind: "disingenuous", "delusional".
http://www.medianama.com/2015/05/223-facebooks-internet-org-privacy/ http://www.medianama.com/2015/05/223-facebooks-internet-org-...
- r00fus 11y agoIt's like a bizarro-world balkanized Internet - like the Online Gateways (Compuserve, AOL, etc) of past years. Sounds like step back in time.
- ShirsenduK 11y agoAin't Facebook HTTPS by default? I guess the less privileged get no commitment to security from Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/a-continued-commitment-to-security/486790652130 https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/a-continued-commitme... If they say its because India has more feature phones; someone must be screwing up with the numbers.
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- x0x0 11y agoA free, ad-supported offering has limitations and appears to serve the advertiser, not the "user"? Cue internet outrage! If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. -- blue_beetle on mefi It never gets less remarkable that people don't understand that.
- formatjam 11y agoI don't think this is the case here. This is a freemium model, hoping the people CAN afford internet but do not know they NEED it will pay for the normal services with the operator.
- dlitz 11y agoIt's the online services network that telcos have been trying to build since the late 1990s, but nobody wanted because it wasn't the Internet. What irritates me most is that the Wikimedia Foundation is whitewashing the whole effort, and complicating the public understanding of "net neutrality". I mean, seriously, it would be obvious what a farce this is if it didn't come with Wikipedia access.