It&#x27;s not that they don&#x27;t <i>see</i> other alternatives. This is true, but the reality is that other realistic alternatives don&#x27;t even exist.<p>Their realistic option set is: (a) free access to an incredibly valuable set of resources, or (b) nothing.<p>I would take (a) over (b) any day. I would hope that broader alternatives would eventually come along (and history tells us it will), but the crowd that wants the Indian poor to have <i>nothing</i> until that day comes is, in my opinion, despicable. Heck, I might not even mind some gated internet in the US if I was free to opt-in&#x2F;out of it and it reduced my internet costs.