[bestbits] Worries about Internet.org

[Benjamin]

Joao,
Thank you for this opinion, and I am very interested in seeing the operationalization of the Internet.org free access.. how free it will be only time will tell.

Concern for users privacy is still not very important here, users just want to get access whichever way it comes.
Surveillance is not so much of a concern for average users.
Illiterate digital users are becoming obvious even as there was a 70% failure of students in the college exams in Nigeria this August 2014.

Hope access to Internet will truly impact positively on the education of the users.

Thank you Carlos for your concern, Civil Societies need to protect the users from been exploited.

Benjamin
 
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On Monday, August 4, 2014 12:05 PM, João Carlos R. Caribé <joao.caribe at me.com> wrote:
 


Dear All,  when someones are excited about the new Facebook philanthropic project Internet.org ( http://internet.org ) that is around any mobile application that allow poor peoples from third world can access for free some selected web sites, I'm just worried about that.

For example, they not ashamed to say the app can provide free access to "free basic services" on the Internet, referring to me in my imagination something like cable TV package or private networks like AOL in the past.

I wary about the generosity of Facebook, they could create a system of curation, providing a false digital inclusion, but keeping 
track of the information that users can receive. It's easy to imagine that suspect agreements that are made between Facebook, the Telecom companies and the "basic service". Just made a quick imagination exercise and you will see in the future a lot of online services aggressing to the project, and what Internet this new "digitally included citizens" will know. So this is dangerous to the net neutrality and the freedom of choice, and for diversity and the cognitive knowledge building of the Internet.

We are experiencing some of that at Brazil with "free" mobile Facebook access and counting this as new 
digital included citizen, but there wasn't any increase on the culture 
and education of then, who just know to use Facebook, but not the 
Internet. The price is one "digital included" citizen that continue to 
be an digital illiterate.
The other face of this threat are running now at Chile, where the 
Telecoms company are saying that the net net neutrality is the reason of
 Chile "killed" the free access to Wikipedia and Facebook.

I will write some lines about this threat at Movimento Mega website http://movimentomega.org.br today.



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João Carlos R. Caribé
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