>Zero-rating in emerging markets (e.g. FB in India) is really the only way for many lower income users to afford services at all -- particularly for video services.

This is too insidious and must be killed

Firstly - google offers free, complete internet via wifi at train stations in India. This solves multiple problems at once and actually makes an impact. (No last mile issues, at a major node where millions of people interact every day)

Secondly - Zero rating as proposed in India, would allow for a small curated list, which of course would be done by Facebook.

As zero rating stood, it was used by college kids who wanted free Facebook. Not by Kanta Bhen, in the middle of no where trying to find medical advice.

Thirdly-importantly: Wikipedia is not the internet. Facebook is not the internet. Google is not the internet.

These are fundamentally sites on the internet, and while hugely important to the English speaking world, the real value is the place where these things were made possible. And that is the internet.

That is what India risks losing, at a time in its development when it's more prepared to make pong than it is to make candy crush.

Sure, theres huge English speaking populations in the cities.

But rural India speaks a whole menagerie of local languages, many of which don't share a common root language.

So removing the chance for people to actually see that open, flat network, connecting everyone around the world is a massive short sighted loss.