> They'd probably provide the people in those countries with Facebook-only smartphones, or Facebook-only Internet connections, or something else horrible and dystopian like that.

Have you heard about internet.org[0]?

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (there are so many articles on what's wrong with it / public outcry, I'm just going to link the search results.)