Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica
I was so terrified about how India was almost serious about letting Facebook Zero / free basics or whatever happen.<p>I feel extremely concerned also that new generations are growing up without knowing how the web was intended to be de-centralised and "free" and self-correcting.<p>Maybe that doesn't work at scale and things need regulation, but I feel like there was a chance to set culture and tone so that even when a large number of people would come on to the Internet, it would be more with a Wikipedia like attitude perhaps.<p>Now imagine if the first introduction to the Internet for a billion-ish people in India (current penetration is 460mil) would have been through Facebook's internet.org. Imagine if that happened in a country as large as India set that precedent for other countries with low internet penetration.<p>I used to scoff in university at a batchmate who told me over lunch that he doesn't use gmail because Google is too large and could become evil. I'm not scoffing anymore I guess.