Facebook!=the Internet. If it&#x27;s only Facebook and friends, this is not at all anything like the Internet. It&#x27;s a closed platform, like 25 years ago, with walled gardens.<p>So people need to stop saying those criticising Free Basic are in favor of depriving poor people from the Internet.<p>Quite honestly this Free Basic thing is so absurd to me on the face of it I hope Facebook doesn&#x27;t modify it as a result of all the increasing criticism. Then it can just face plant, which is where it ought to end up.<p>Even my ISP doesn&#x27;t MITM my 443 connections to other services.