Why Facebook’s Free Basics is like dirty drinking water
Dec24
on December 24, 2015
at 1:08 pm
Facebook is struggling to make its Free Basics service — which allows people in 36 countries to access select websites for free — stick in its largest target market: India. Since it launched in the country in February, the service has received flak for violating net neutrality principles, which state that all content should be treated equally and made available as such. Critics take issue with the fact that Facebook gets to act as a gatekeeper of the sites available on its platform and decide what content and services people — particularly those who can’t afford to pay for internet…
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