"This is Tayo. He's 11 and showed me a game he built called Spike Rush"

Re:"This is Tayo. He's 11 and showed me a game he built call... by downandout on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:45PM (#12521517)

Does Mark's motivation matter to this kid? Probably not. He will likely make at least thousands of dollars, and perhaps much more, because of this mention. Internet.org, the service you referred to as "bullshit," was attempting to give hundreds of millions of impoverished people a way to communicate with the world that they don't currently have.

Neither Mark Zuckerberg nor Facebook owe you, the people of Nigeria and India, or anyone else, anything. This kind of reaction to the philanthropic efforts of wealthy people and corporations will only serve to discourage such efforts in the future.

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Re:"This is Tayo. He's 11 and showed me a game he built call... by icebraining on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:59PM (#12522173)

I have some sympathy for your position, and I'm against the banning of Internet.org, but your reply is ineffective because it misses the arguments against the service.

Even something given with no ulterior motive can have destructive effects on the recipient society, since it eliminates potential competition, while often not providing a better good or service. How many future ISPs offering cheap open internet access will not even appear?

On the subject, though not directly about Facebook, I suggest this interview with the creator of Poverty, Inc.: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/michael_matheso.htm...

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