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Facebook’s Free Basics program creates a walled off internet for poor people. Except it doesn’t actually give its low income users free access to the internet. Free Basics gives people access to Facebook’s version of the internet.
How is it censorship? No one has to use the service if they don't want to.
Facebook is not required to provide free anything to anybody. They are providing a specific limited service for free. People can use it or not as they choose. They can still get "free" (taxpayer-funded) internet at the library. Or they can find free WiFi somewhere. Or they can pay for whatever service they want just like the rest of us.
It is our belief that Facebook is improperly defining net neutrality in public statements and building a walled garden in which the world’s poorest people will only be able to access a limited set of insecure websites and services.
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But there’s legitimate concern that allowing a major US multinational corporation to train people to use its tailored version of the internet will engender a kind of digital neocolonialism that will hurt domestic innovation and do more to lock people into using Facebook and its affiliate services than anything else.
So it's basically just a logon to facebook and a few affiliates. No thanks. I'm sure anything like a gun site won't be and affiliate
Who cares, I work for an ISP and get it all free.
Yeah but your ISP is a for profit service and they don't control the content, thats the difference.
Would you sign up for free cable that only had government sanctioned "news" shows so you could have a few other cable channels that were likely also skewed to a certain viewpoint?
The point is, no one has to sign up for it if they don't want the content on offer.
There doesn't seem to be any indication that the Facebook Internet Police will go door to door forcing people to sign up for their service. They are offering something for free. It has some strings attached. People can use it or not as they choose.
Anyone who is concerned about the free internet offered by Facebook can start their own free internet company and run it any way they want.
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