Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of World Wide Web

Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by dangero on Saturday October 10, 2015 @02:53PM (#10366520)

I think the main issue is the name not the product. If it was honest about what it was then fine it's just modern AOL, but the name internet.org is at minimum misleading.

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Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by poppup on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:09PM (#10366585)

We all get a bad feeling in our gut when we know something is not right. Posing as a non profit with the "Internet" brand is not right.

To your point, if they were just upfront about what they're doing, it wouldn't be an issue.

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Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by Manishearth on Saturday October 10, 2015 @05:29PM (#10367081)

Note that this is very obviously deliberate. It's not just the name. All the outreach around internet.org brands it as something its not.

Which is all the more reason to be suspicious.

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Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by eggie on Saturday October 10, 2015 @04:07PM (#10366798)

It is so precisely AOL! WorldOnLine! They are actually online, just not on the open internet.

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Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by salgernon on Saturday October 10, 2015 @06:06PM (#10367172)

Right down to movies credits ending with "like us on facebook" instead of "AOL Keyword My90sMovie".

Media captures the mindset of the time, but mindset changes, orphaning the sentiment.

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