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by Karrot_Kream
1637 days ago
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What is a layer of "disconnection"? Is this a new rhetorical device? Facebook does actually help build the connectivity up in these countries so they do in fact pay for the infrastructure. It is still exploitative in that they mislead folks in developing countries to think they have access to the internet when instead they're on Facebook's private network. But they do pay the cost of connectivity, at least somewhat. |
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Not a rhetorical device. I mean that FB inserts itself as a kind of centralized middleman that can disconnect people that the internet connects. To speak of it in computer architecture terms it could be called a single point of failure.
It makes everybody go through their App and watch their ads or else they get disconnected from everybody else. This isn't something that should be called connecting people.
> Facebook does actually help build the connectivity up in these countries so they do in fact pay for the infrastructure.
Facebook "pays for" the expansion of infrastructure with proceeds from parasitism on the existing infrastructure.