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by S3curityPlu5 3566 days ago
can u expand on the comment. "this is why internet.org and the walled garden got nuked" please..
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The bad idea that a free walled garden is better than nothing, or that it's worth sacrificing network neutrality in order to increase overall access.

And to give a little more background, Facebook was trying to get free "internet" access away in India, but it wasn't really internet access it was actually just a Facebook walled garden. The local population organized and ultimately the government rightly told them to piss off.

Because being able to access a diverse set of viewpoints on the Internet is not, actually, a "privilege" but rather the central point of the whole affair.