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Re: India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content

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post #126

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> And you think enabling tens of millions of people to access these resources will make them....worse? Nope, just saying that non-English Indian language internet sucks. Yes it gets better when more and more people are using it, but that still doesn't change the fact that millions of people currently don't have internet in a form which they can use to make their lives better. > What do you say to the Indian coder who…

>>Same thing you're going to say to that 18 year old kid in the year 2030 whose life could have been different had he lived in a more connected India. There is a patient suffering from a heart disease, medicine arrives in a few days. You seem to be suggesting that another drug, which can relieve the patient of some of the pains for the next hour, but is sure to kill the patient in the next few months be administered…

I don't think it's going to kill the patient having a choice of only Facebook and WhatsApp to talk to each other without paying for minutes or SMS. Or indeed enhance their freedom of choice when they decide to stick to SMS because it's good enough and cheaper than the internet.

I started using AOL when its walled garden tried (not unconvincingly at the time) to pass itself off as the entire internet. 15 years later I can't even remember the last time I visited a core AOL property.

Re: India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content

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post #118

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Babajob is not Facebook's job search site (nor is the other job search site I just noticed on the list, Times Jobs). Only a couple things on the list of sites included in the program are Facebook's. Here is the list (as of a few months ago): Aaj Tak AccuWeather Amarujala.com AP Speaks Babajob BabyCenter & MAMA BBC News Bing Search Cleartrip Daily Bhaskar Dictionary.com ESPN Cricinfo Facebook Facebook Messenger Facts…

Is Facebook being transparent about which of these websites are paying for inclusion in the free tier?

None of them https://info.internet.org/en/2015/11/19/internet-org-myths-a...

Re: India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content

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post #219

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A) I don't see the edit button. B) I don't see you saying the same to the parent comment.

The 'edit' option lasts for 2 hours. I meant please edit such stuff out of future posts. The parent comment was wild, inflammatory, and snarky, so it was a bad comment for HN—but still wasn't personally abusive. That is beside the point here though. The rules apply to you whether someone else broke them or not. If we all just point at others, this site is lost.

Fair enough. :)

Re: India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content

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> progressive How is it progressive? This is conservative (not wanting change).

Can you consider that the change wound have been (in utilitarian terms) detrimental?

When someone is a progressive, it does not require that everyone actually thinks what they advocate for is actually progress. There are always two sides to every change.

In that light, many people would consider Free Basics to be progress, and as such those people are progressives. Those not wanting change are the conservatives.

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