The slow demise of Wikipedia Zero on the subcontinent
I once had a chat with a guy who grew up in a similar place with no internet.  He mentioned that given the choice between no internet and a corporate curated internet, he would have wanted the latter.<p>Having thought on it more, I ended up drawing a comparison to child labor.  We can agree that child labor (as in the 7 days a week, 12 hours a day variant) is all sorts of bad, including limiting a child&#x27;s ability to get an education.  But I remember reading in the past that bans on child labor have often times ended up with children turning to even more harmful means to survive or not surviving at all.<p>Is defending net neutrality in all cases worth the immediate short term costs?  Should we even be the ones to make that decision?  Or are some exceptions reasonable, such as non-profits?  Other comments here have already pointed out different ways these exceptions could be abused, but how does the damage of that abuse equate to someone who was depending upon Wikipedia Zero to gain knowledge who is now cut off?<p>I&#x27;m really not sure.