“Facebook Is the Internet” and Other Things Media People Debate at Dinner

Re:“Facebook Is the Internet” and Other Things Media People ... by kristopolous on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:14PM (#10616125)

I guess they don't have net neutrality. Those are some of the consequences

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Re:“Facebook Is the Internet” and Other Things Media People ... by Alupis on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:09PM (#10616520)

> I guess they don't have net neutrality. Those are some of the consequences

It sounds an awful lot like Facebook's plan to give free phones and "data" to developing nations... with restricted access only to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram.[1]

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-free-internet-access-p...

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Re:“Facebook Is the Internet” and Other Things Media People ... by Tloewald on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:26PM (#10616641)

Or you can go direct to the horse's mouth, e.g.

https://info.internet.org/en/story/developers/

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Re:“Facebook Is the Internet” and Other Things Media People ... by seltzered_ on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:58PM (#10616452)

You could argue we're getting closer to it in the US. Here's a plan advertised in rural Texas I observed during a road trip a few months ago: http://i.imgur.com/70nUeHH.png

looking at their website, you apparently get unlimited facebook at LTE speed, but the data plan for non-facebook data is capped to a varying limit depending on price at 3G speed. They also have a plan that only has talk/text/facebook access.

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Re:“Facebook Is the Internet” and Other Things Media People ... by kristopolous on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:20PM (#10618549)

IANAL but isn't that what this title 2 thing was supposed to prevent? This sounds like the famed "internet fast lane" which we always claimed was going to manifest as the "internet normal lane for a few, slow lanes for all the rest"

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