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Re: [gaia] fb's Free Basics in India

Nick Feamster <feamster@CS.Princeton.EDU> Mon, 28 December 2015 11:09 UTC

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As long as you define “Facebook” as “basics”, his argument might make sense.  That is the crux of the issue and perhaps why he may be (willfully?) blind to the seemingly obvious sticking point: Who gets to decide what’s free vs. paid? Talk about a lever for control—by the companies who govern free basics, if not the governments themselves who might eventually wish to control access through this chokepoint.

-Nick

> On Dec 28, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Richard Dent <rd459@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/free-basics-protects-net-neutrality/

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