It is just my computer... or are they not using any CSS styling?
It's just you.
Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access
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#12We're stuck with facebook for the rest of our lives. Aren't we?
facebook is literally an infinite well of data. I don't see how we could eradicate it without a truly terrible abuse of power coming to light from within the company.
Facebook isn't giving me useful implementations of my data. It's holding relationships hostage.
It being the de facto source for internet services for large populations is only going to make things worse.
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#13tl;dr: Zuckerberg says "Screw net neutrality, I've got dibs on billions of people for my walled garden." > Twitter ... has struck its own deals ... in more than 100 countries to offer some free Twitter access; ... it bundled free Facebook access with some of its Asha feature phones.; Globe Telecom, has used free Twitter, Facebook or Google access > "if you can afford a phone, I think it would be really good for you t…
Looks like it's more about making the internet more accessible to people without it.
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#14Every one of us. Everywhere. C̶o̶n̶n̶e̶c̶t̶e̶d̶[Monitored].
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#15New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/technology/facebook-leads-...
It's on the page.
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#16Great initiative, but it doesn't actually say what they're doing towards it.
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#17I'm sensing a new trend: short videos in the backgrounds. Other similar site with the same trend https://letshum.com/
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#18It is just my computer... or are they not using any CSS styling?
It doesn't seem to work in Chrome. Work's in Safari though.
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#19tl;dr: Zuckerberg says "Screw net neutrality, I've got dibs on billions of people for my walled garden." > Twitter ... has struck its own deals ... in more than 100 countries to offer some free Twitter access; ... it bundled free Facebook access with some of its Asha feature phones.; Globe Telecom, has used free Twitter, Facebook or Google access > "if you can afford a phone, I think it would be really good for you t…
Looks like it's more about making the internet more accessible to people without it.
> However, the Internet.org team does not plan to tackle some thorny infrastructure issues that are huge barriers in the developing world, particularly the long-distance transmission of data to far-flung places.
The only way this initiative will therefore accomplish access to the Internet to people without it seems to be in increasing the profit margin to the local telco. How? Through vertical integration. What does that mean? Get free Facebook with your phone. What's so bad about that? Goodbye, net neutrality in developing countries.
I'm leaving the morality judgment for others, and it's far from straightforward that this is a bad thing. But I'm rather more inspired by Google's Loon as actually having a positive impact on the developing world than this here thing.
Basically, 3G, 4G, the lot, is no good for large amounts of data. The percentage of mobile traffic of total traffic is actually dropping here in Australia - mobile data is being thrashed by fixed line services. Fixed line is growing 50% while mobile data would 10% every 6 months. And Loon acts more like a fixed line service than mobile data.
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#202/3rds of the world does not have internet. It's easy for us to forget that. It's a serious issue, and Facebook is well-positioned to tackle it.