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by throwaway10001 4751 days ago
+If a company uses their profit (e.g. from ads) to provide and finance something as extremely useful and important as free internet access to developing countries - then yes, that's totally fine for me.

Depends how they make that profit and at what expense to competitors, users, society... Would you have felt the same about Microsoft's profit in the 1990's?

A more extreme example: What if Blackwater, Pablo Escobar, Al Capone, Booz Allen etc fund soup kitchen's for the poor?