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vasusen on April 18, 2015 | hide | past | favorite


They are giving poor people another choice they can have access to a very limited Internet or they can have access to none. If they would just loose lot's of money by giving people this choice it wouldn't be a reliable business and soon it would end. What's so bad about giving people another choice? No one is forcing them.. and it's way better than doing nothing.


Yeah like I said in my other comment - deplorable but not unethical. FB has the capital to provide the service AND make it open.


I'd be OK with something more subtle, like a mandatory FB account (kind of like how Google does with G+ and their other services). But limiting what they can see on the internet...I wouldn't go so far as to call it unethical, but certainly deplorable. Especially for a company with as much capital as FB. They don't need to sink this low.




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