Seeing Beyond The Hubris Of Facebook's Free Basics Fiasco

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By BeauHDFeb 13, 2016, 6:00 pm225 pts
Facebook's Free Basics was an ill-conceived effort to bring Internet access to the poor in India. It created a walled garden in which Facebook and the Indian telecom providers selected which websites people could visit. The users of Free Basics would find that Facebook was the center of their virtual universe…

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