[governance] Killing the net neutral Internet

[João Carlos Rebello Caribé]

Completely agree with you Parminder, I've read this yesterday night and wake this morning spreading my worries to the lists, groups and social networks. This project is perverse, follow my considerations:

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.


Em 02/08/2014, às 02:52, parminder escreveu:

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/11005228/Facebook-brings-free-web-access-to-Africa-with-Internet.org-app.html
> 
> One can think of the immediate benefit, or the soon to come disaster of a fully controlled Internet. Take your choice!
> 
> parminder 
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