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Re:The next billion users are the future of the internet by cryptoz on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:46PM (#16378152)
Facebook's efforts in that are self-serving and mean-spirited. Connecting people to your platform and hiding the rest of the internet while telling them they should love you just isn't right - and it's not done to help them, it's done to make Zuck more money.

See "Facebook and the New Colonialism", https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/faceb...

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Re:The next billion users are the future of the internet by pwaivers on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:51PM (#16378189)
I agree with you. While it may look altruistic on the surface (providing free internet to the less fortunate), they are actually creating monopoly on Internet for all future users. They can easily cut out competition.
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