Your saying <i>I&#x27;m</i> in the ivory tower?  Bad politicians have already kept a billion Indians out of modernity.  Maybe they should give Free Basics a chance before they shut it down to protect their own power, or some <i>ivory tower</i> view that no internet connection is better than a very limited connection that nonetheless connects you with people across the world.<p>If there&#x27;s an alternative way to expand connectivity, then why doesn&#x27;t it exist now, or why doesn&#x27;t someone set it up in competition to Free Basics? No one will use Free Basics if they can get real internet at an affordable price.<p>And your characterization of &quot;one station&quot; is wholly inaccurate. Even if the service included only Facebook (which it doesn&#x27;t, as anyone can apply to have their web service included in the system), that&#x27;s millions of profiles and pages with differing opinions, competing products, etc.