<i>The question is still up in the air, whether FB Basics is gateway to full internet or if it is a walled garden.</i><p>I think it&#x27;s a gateway to popularising tunneling; as long as FB lets those using FB Basics and those accessing FB from the full Internet communicate, you can still send information through. It&#x27;s just like using FB as a proxy. Given that and what I know about Indian ingenuity, I predict a lot more hacks like this will appear:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9203946" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9203946</a><p>So I suppose in some respects you could think of FB Basics as a <i>very heavily</i> throttled full Internet connection. You could even argue that FB and all the other companies giving &quot;free&quot; non-net-neutral access is driving incentive to hack around these restrictions, which I think is not at all a bad thing.