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Re:Facebook's AI Points Internet Drones to Where the People Are by angersock on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:09PM (#11155115)
At the risk of being gauche...

If the main benefit of Facebook is advertising, why bother extending functionality to people who are too poor to buy anything?

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Re:Facebook's AI Points Internet Drones to Where the People Are by ehnto on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:54PM (#11156142)
I presume it will be targeted advertising.

But I don't know what the end goal is. Both the target market and the target publishers are a mystery so far as I can tell.

Perhaps government or regieme campaigns will be the main buyer of advertisements to such detatched communities. I wonder what the cost per conversion is for rural votes?

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