Un article bien complet sur le pourquoi Facebook s'est mangé un mur, en Inde, avec son programme qui vise à fournir un espèce d'accès internet^Wweb au rabais pour lequel la société déciderait de ce que les utilisateurs peuvent voir.

Petit morceau choisi:

Netizens have come back at Facebook with parody ads, John Oliver-esque PSAs, critical tweets from prominent Indian tech figures, and a deluge of their own letters to the regulators. Organizing the opposition movement has been a loose collective called SaveTheInternet.in, which has been wrangling the savvy Indian tech and startup scene to argue that this hurts not only net neutrality, but them.

That’s because at a time when Indian companies are emerging to compete with Silicon Valley, Free Basics lets one company decide what a swath of internet users get to see, making it harder for a little guy to be discovered in the internet wilds if they don’t join Free Basics. “Facebook is spending a lot of money on the billboards and the ads and the Modi hugging,” says Hey, Neighbor! founder Aravind Ravi-Sulekha, based in Bangalore. “Facebook says ‘we’re not a danger, we haven’t stifled the startup ecosystem yet.’ But they’re not very successful yet [in India]. I’m pretty sure Facebook, with their hacker culture, will figure it out, and at that point, it will be too late to stop them.”

Ca c'est pour l'aspect économique. Je ne parle pas des autres problèmes que cela soulève en terme de liberté d'expression, sous couvert de vouloir « sauver le monde ».