If I understand this right, it means poor people don&#x27;t actually get the Internet. They get Facebook. Ergo it&#x27;s a regression back to pre-Internet &quot;Prodigy&quot; and &quot;Compuserve&quot; and &quot;AOL&quot; only days, for poor people. And then they get piles of ads in their face. It&#x27;s not really the Internet. So is that better than nothing? I think that&#x27;s up to the users to decide rather than people who have the real Internet.<p>But I also think it&#x27;s misleading to refer to this as &quot;digital equality&quot; or that Facebook and friends constitutes &quot;essential internet services.&quot; The only essential Internet service is the fucking connection to the unabridged Internet. So call it what it actually is. Don&#x27;t exaggerate (lie).<p>EDIT: I don&#x27;t use Facebook, at all. I have tons of friends who don&#x27;t use it, at all. So how &quot;essential&quot; is it? I&#x27;m completely OK with them giving free Facebook + only whatever else they want, but it&#x27;s b.s. to call this essential or basic. It&#x27;s not even really free if people are getting ad bombed to pay for it.. So yeah, let people have whatever this is, it&#x27;s fine, but don&#x27;t lie&#x2F;mislead about what it is.