Facebook Frolics 0
India refuses to be assimilated by the Zuckerborg (emphasis added–follow the link for the full article):
TRAI today ruled (PDF) that: “No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content.”
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Facebook’s Free Basics project was ostensibly intended to extend some of the internet to those in the developing world – for free. It was billed as a charitable exercise by the Zuckerborg, but was met with considerably more hostility than charity usually is.
Critics have noted that the Zuckerborg’s curated collection of sites which were available distorted the view of the web for new netizens.
Afterthought:
My attorney will not be contacting El Reg over use of the term, “Zuckerborg,” because the comparison is so damned obvious that it’s public domain.