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February 11, 2016 11:24 am PST
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Facebook's "Free Basics" and colonialism: an argument in six devastating points
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…)
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