'It's digital colonialism': how Facebook's free internet service has failed its users
by Olivia Solon from Technology | The Guardian on (#2XKFQ)
Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on 'western corporate content' and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say
Free Basics, Facebook's free, limited internet service for developing markets, is neither serving local needs nor achieving its objective of bringing people online for the first time.
That's according to research by citizen media and activist group Global Voices, published this week, which examined the Free Basics service in six different markets - Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and Philippines - to see whether it was serving the intended audience.
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