Re: <nettime> Mahesh Murthy: Facebook's new internet.org is evil

[Patrick Martin Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>]

I loved this article.

IMO, I've been seeing this coming down the pike, and the neoliberal goo 
that the market should colonize the developing world, then let the 
public sector pick it up when Facebook, whatever, ditches it when it's 
no longer profitable.  Basically, I've found out here in the 3rd World 
that you basically need to follow power/money, and the Third World tends 
to follow the First World's sources of it, and the Vectoral class are 
trying to sweep in and suck the capital out of the developing 
superstructure in the world.

The irony is that in Southeast Asia, potential smartphone users want the 
units because they want "The Internet" (read: Facebook).  this subtle 
sell to the developing world (facebook = The Internet) is especially 
pernicious in that it represents the same strategy Second Life tried to 
promise, a "New Internet" in cyberspace.  The issue is robust 
infoculture comes from standards, not private platforms, and net 
neutrality as a basic tenet of mass communications.

On 11/16/15 3:00 AM, nettime's_public-private-partnership wrote:

> < https://www.techinasia.com/talk/facebooks-internetorg-evil/ >
>
> Mahesh Murthy
>
> 12:15 pm on Nov 15, 2015
>
> Facebook's new internet.org is evil
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