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Why Do People Hate Facebook’s Plan to Give India Free Internet?

February 10, 201633 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Indian officials today flatly denied Facebook’s plan to offer free access to stripped-down, popular websites — including, of course, the popular website known as Facebook — and, in so doing, disbanded a Facebook–Indian telecom firm partnership that had already been put into practice.

Facebook’s Internet.org project has been controversial from the start and its Free Basics program has proven to be a concept that is more difficult, semantically-speaking, to reject. It’s all intended to provide the world’s poorer populations with free access to select parts of the internet. India — with 1.25 billion citizens, many of whom live in poverty — seemed the logical place to start.

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