Facebook's "Free Basics" and colonialism: an argument in six devastating points
by Cory Doctorow from on (#13NPG)
Though India's independent telcoms regulator has banned services like Facebook's "Free Basics" -- which bribed phone companies to exempt Facebook's chosen services from the carriers' punishing data-caps -- the debate rages on, as Free Basics has taken hold through many poor countries around the world. (more")