Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P...
by mekoka on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:53AM
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Please note that there's a sharp distinction between bringing the Internet to new places and bringing "the Internet" aka Facebook's walled garden to new places.
From a wikipedia section on Free Basics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Basics#User_experience_re...
> In 2015, researchers evaluating how Facebook Zero shapes information and communication technologies (ICT) usage in the developing world found that 11% of Indonesians who said they used Facebook also said they did not use the Internet. 65% of Nigerians, and 61% of Indonesians agree with the statement that "Facebook is the Internet" compared with only 5% in the US
Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P...
by cbHXBY1D on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:49AM
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Most people on this site have not trusted FB's intentions with the drone project for good reason. Ever since we collectively realized a three years ago that FB's internet.org was a wolf in sheep's clothing, most people on here have been distrusting of FB.
Separately, RE: bringing internet to new places, there's reasonable evidence to show that introducing broadband lifts GDP[1], so whatever you may think of Facebook, giving people high-speed connectivity to the whole Internet is probably a net positive. Disclaimer: I helped start Facebook's Connectivity Lab but no longer work there.
[1] http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/391452529895999/WDR16-BP-Exp...