&gt;But 50% of the rest of India doesn&#x27;t pay for internet and it thinks there is no need to because that is ALL the internet has to offer.<p>I think you underestimate people&#x27;s intelligence. More so, if they only want to use Facebook, or don&#x27;t want to use anything else enough to pay for it, what&#x27;s the problem?<p>&gt;A young founder launches a new education app to teach reading&#x2F;writing to poor villagers. But she first needs to get a &#x27;license&#x27; from facebook.<p>Only if Facebook is the only ISP, which could only happen if government passed a law or regulation that made that so. Or if people are not interested in anything else, in which case they should not be forced to pay for anything else.<p>&gt;They use other forms of communication to get their daily, unfiltered news.<p>Are you implying they wouldn&#x27;t without net neutrality?<p>&gt;The startup scene in India is growing at its natural pace and the culture has become more innovative<p>Not, it isn&#x27;t. It would be more innovative if it was forced to compete with Facebook.<p>In Brazil where net neutrality is sort of in place the only thing that happened was people being deprived of &quot;free WhatsApp + Facebook&quot; mobile data plans (which didn&#x27;t forbid them from acquiring a more expensive plan to access other things as you suggest it would!). Now you just have to pay expensive prices even if you just want to chat with your friends.