Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by anivar 3816 days ago
The FCC letter signed by facebook said

1. “The open architecture of the Internet creates an innovation-without-permission ecosystem. Consumers (and consumers alone) decide the winners and losers on the open Internet.”

2. The brief also describes the dangers of a “walled garden” with a “pre-selected lineup.”

3. “Such an outcome would undo much of the progress of the last two decades. Consumers would lose the ability to choose freely among competitive services and sources of information. It would also significantly decrease the rewards edge providers could realize from innovating, further decreasing consumer choice.”

4. It would also significantly decrease the rewards edge providers could realize from innovating, further decreasing consumer choice.”

Free Basics contradict all these .