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Re:Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads abo... by tdaltonc on Friday December 25, 2015 @05:16PM (#10792525)
Ya, who needs to know the price of rice or fertilizer? Certainly not Indian farmers; they can eat inner peace. And who needs to learn algebra? Certainly not rural children; they already know the meaning of life.

Free Basics isn't the answer, but going from no-internet to just-a-tiny-bit-of-internet can have a big impact on someones life.

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Re:Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads abo... by crdb on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:08PM (#10793001)
> Certainly not rural children

Funnily enough, having worked for a while on projects in rural Maharashtra, the children are the path to information for those villages - they're the ones who can read and write and know the prices and share information upwards to the adults.

(the conclusion being, back then, that one should market to children...)

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