The AOL comparison seems appropriate and is not one I&#x27;ve heard before, good point.<p>I&#x27;d argue that this has even darker motivations than AOL ever did though. At least with AOL people had a choice. There were alternatives to living inside the walled garden.<p>This seems more like indentured servitude.  I suspect strongly that the poorest people that Facebook is targeting here have <i>no</i> option as they can&#x27;t afford any data charges at all, so will sign up because its this or nothing.<p>Many of these folks may never have even seen the internet. There&#x27;s a very real chance that a lot of them will believe that the curated Facebook internet <i>is</i> the internet proper.<p>I&#x27;m sure Mark Zuckerberg considers himself to be a fair and reasonable gatekeeper so doesn&#x27;t see this as a problem, but this is almost certainly going to be abused sooner or later (spoiler: sooner).