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Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics

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Re: Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics

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What if I claim you are rich enough to donate to charities of not only your choice, but my choice as well. Will you donate to arbitrary charities that arbitrary people ask you to? Just because you have money does not mean we get to tell you what to do with it. >Even a delay in getting people online is better for the people's interests than locking them into a shitty closed system for the long-term. That's because you…

Unfortunately neither does any one if us know what the unconnected want. Let's not pretend we do. So, given that, we're doing what we would've wanted to be done if we were in their position. Locking me into a particular website (or a set of) , especially the one which misuses my personal information is not something i want to be locked into. Hence, we shouldn't stand by silently letting them be locked into "Facebook…

> So, given that, we're doing what we would've wanted to be done if we were in their position.

Actually, I'd rather get any connectivity I could get.

Re: Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics

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From my Indian friends on Facebook, it appears Facebook is showing messages that certain friends of yours are supporting, or signed up for Facebook basics, even if they never did anything of the sort. It's creepy, and messed up. Edit: (Leaving the original post untouched), it appears Facebook will show you as having supported Free Basics if you clicked polls which seemed completely unrelated (as the original article…

My friends kind of know me as a supporter of net neutrality and I was horrified when two of them shared with me their notification screenshots which was showing me as supporting Facebook "Free Basics".

Would you mind linking to a copy of the screenshot here? (with your name etc. blacked out -- I just want to see what the notification looks like)
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