[manish_gill]

Wow, such holier than thou attitude.

Anything thinking the problem is that the poor people aren't connected enough is seriously misinformed. India connected over 300mil people last year, and guess what, Facebook's effort only contributed ~1% of that number.

Not to mention, over the long term, the very real problem that the Facebook walled garden of apps would present in terms of opportunities for entrepreneurs is much more urgent in an emerging economy like India. India has tried (and is still trying) subsidies for the poor, that hasn't helped. Facebook wanted everyone to go through their platform before reaching those users. Will that help the guy from the small town who just created an app? No it won't.

So yeah, your condescending comparisons to Egypt and your "think of the poor!" argument is the exact same thing Zuckerberg said in his op-ed in Times of India. It didn't work then and it is not gonna work now.

[dang]

> such holier than thou attitude [...] your condescending comparison

Please edit such personal rudeness out of your posts to HN. It's not allowed, even when someone else is condescending and wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

[manish_gill]

A) I don't see the edit button.

B) I don't see you saying the same to the parent comment.

[dang]

The 'edit' option lasts for 2 hours. I meant please edit such stuff out of future posts.

The parent comment was wild, inflammatory, and snarky, so it was a bad comment for HN—but still wasn't personally abusive. That is beside the point here though. The rules apply to you whether someone else broke them or not. If we all just point at others, this site is lost.

[manish_gill]

Fair enough. :)