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Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by andreyf on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:08PM (#10366574)
Did you read the article? It claims internet.org is not limited internet:

> Mark Zuckerberg had come out in defence of the programme, saying it did not block or throttle services and is not in conflict with net neutrality.

Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by voxic11 on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:15PM (#10366613)
Just because it doesn't throttle services doesn't change the fact that internet.org gets to decide what services get on the platform in the first place.

"Developer participation on the Internet.org Platform, including the information submitted with your application, is otherwise governed by our standard legal terms . Collectively, our standard legal terms and these supplemental terms are the entire agreement between you and Facebook relating to Internet.org, and any terms of use for your service will not apply to Facebook. Submission does not guarantee that your site(s) will be made available through Internet.org."

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org

Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by sa1 on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:15PM (#10366610)
If you can't open any other website other than the 50 or so provided by Facebook, then it is in effect a limited internet.

Arguments that "saying it did not block or throttle services", tries to imply that "This is not the Internet, so we are not blocking anything on the Internet". That's just hogwash.

Re:Just Say No to Facebook's Internet.org, Says Inventor of ... by arihant on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:13PM (#10366603)
It is. Free lane is fundamentally similar to fast lane.

Also, if you use Internet.org, you cannot use other websites unless you stop using Internet.org, you get a "fuck off" message for any other website you want to visit, even if you want to pay for it with usual pay as you go data charges.