In Q&A, Alphabet chairman John Hennessy says it's not clear to him if Chinese people are better off with a “limited version” of Google or no access to it at all
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @stevekovach , @edzitron , @jason_kint , and @matthewstoller Tweets: Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : Google went from denying there was any merit to st...
A look at the history of Facebook's Internet.org project, which it says has brought 100M online, from its 2013 debut to Free Basics
Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn't go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition. Tweets: @karengeier , @w...
Facebook has quietly ended its Free Basics program in more than six nations and territories in recent months including Myanmar and Latin American markets
Facebook enabled ethnic-cleansing-related hate speech in Myanmar; many died and thousands fled. Rather than take responsibility, it's turning away.
Sources: Facebook in talks with US government and wireless carriers to launch Free Basics-like service in the US, for low-income and rural Americans
Brian Fung / Washington Post :
How Facebook, oblivious to India's concerns, used heavy-handed tactics and failed with Free Basics
ntil Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a bright orange helicopter in October 2014, Chandauli had never seen a celebrity visitor. One of 44,795 villages in the state of Rajasthan …
Facebook's Free Basics service has been banned in India
Facebook's free-but-restricted internet service, Free Basics, has been banned in India after the country's national telecoms regulator ruled that the program and others like it infringe the principles...
Facebook fights skepticism from net neutrality advocates over its Free Basics program in India
Facebook Confronts The Free Internet Neutrality Dilemma — What's more important? Restricted free Internet access for the poor? Or maintaining an open, neutral Internet without limitations?
Indian regulator asks Facebook's telecom partner Reliance Communications to temporarily suspend Free Basics service on net neutrality grounds
Pankaj Doval / The Economic Times :
Indian regulator asks Facebook's telecom partner Reliance Communications to temporarily suspend Free Basics service on net neutrality grounds
Put Facebook's Free Basics service on hold, TRAI tells Reliance Communications — Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) …
Facebook expands its Free Basics services, bundling with free mobile data on Bharti Airtel Africa in 17 African countries
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