You are incorrect in how you labeled your second &quot;choice,&quot; it should be:<p>&quot;Its a choice between having Facebook, or having no Facebook at all.&quot;<p>Do not let them confuse you into comparing the two... What you just said is why this sort of think makes my fucking blood boil (no anger at you friend, it&#x27;s with the institution manipulating you).<p>What they are trying to do, and this really pisses me off, is rebrand &quot;internet&quot; to &quot;Facebook,&quot; for poor Indians. A group who as of right now is unaware of the difference and less apt to understand the evils of the marketing engine behind it because they are not yet connected.<p>Tangent: they are making this so much worse by using government built spectrum. What the fuck kind of perverse asshole thought that would be okay?<p>... Back to the point.<p>Think about this, from an infrastructure standpoint: it will cost them more in firewalls and configuration to limit the Internet than to simply allow unfettered access.<p>I&#x27;m not even kidding, they are going to spend more money implementing basic access than by just giving out plain ol&#x27; Internet. Knowing that, I find it pretty fucking audacious Facebook thinks we are all so fucking stupid to accept that line of shit.<p>Okay... they know we won&#x27;t but we don&#x27;t matter to their growth target. They need mobile users, that aren&#x27;t already users, that they can exploit for money (ad views, sponsored content) or their stock will tank because they aren&#x27;t going to hit their growth target for Qn.<p>So where do they look? The world&#x27;s poor. They go in and offer &quot;internet,&quot; and market it to them as a &quot;right&quot; or some sort of moral high ground. Then back home they market their &quot;humanitarian&quot; efforts making for some touching PR moments.<p>&#x2F;slow-clap &quot;nice work, assholes.&quot;<p>And finally for how this is actually worse than &quot;no Facebook at all,&quot; is because FB&#x27;s marketing machine will go around saying to governments and media &quot;don&#x27;t worry about India&#x27;s Internet, we fixed it.&quot; This, I promise, will slow the development, if not halt it, because other organizations non-profit or for-profit will think it&#x27;s a done deal. Even scarier is that the people in those areas won&#x27;t want &quot;internet,&quot; because &quot;Facebook is good enough.&quot;<p>Digital slavery is what this should be called. It should be abhorred. It should be vilified. It should not be tolerated. We should all be angry.<p>Edit: Updates for grammar and to let person I was replying to know I&#x27;m not at all upset at them or trying to direct anger their way.