Mark Zuckerberg on “Net Neutrality” ... and #Facebook's approach to it
▻https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102033678947881
Over the past week in India, there has been a lot written about ►http://www.internet.org and #net_neutrality. I’d like to share my position on these topics here for everyone to see.
Contexte : Facebook’s Internet.org is falling apart in India as the country debates net neutrality
▻http://qz.com/384865/facebooks-internet-org-is-falling-apart-in-india-as-the-country-debates-net-neut
Sur l’#Inde et le logiciel libre, cf. ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/358813
Facebook redéfinit son « Internet pour les pauvres » en Inde
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/05/04/facebook-redefinit-son-internet-pour-les-pauvres-en-inde_4626704_3234.html
Finalement, l’application va être « ouverte » : d’ici à trois ou quatre semaines, le temps que les informaticiens opèrent les ajustements nécessaires, les utilisateurs de l’application pourront eux-mêmes choisir la trentaine de sites qu’ils préfèrent et ils auront la possibilité, de surcroît, de modifier cette liste tous les mois.
Pour cela, il faudra néanmoins que les sites en question aient manifesté, auprès de Facebook, leur souhait d’être partie prenante et puissent satisfaire aux spécifications techniques requises, la population visée étant très peu équipée en smartphones.
Facebook Renames Its Controversial Internet.org App
▻http://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebook-renames-controversial-internet-org-app
the company said it will change the name of its Internet.org app and mobile website, now available to mobile phone users in 18 countries, to Free Basics by Facebook.
Facebook’s Free Basics service has been banned in India
▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/8/10913398/free-basics-india-regulator-ruling
Facebook’s free-but-restricted internet service, Free Basics, has been banned in India after the country’s national telecoms regulator ruled that the program and others like it infringe the principles of net neutrality. The ruling was not directly aimed at Free Basics, but the general practice of zero-rated internet services — those that let users access certain apps and websites without eating away at their mobile data.
Mark Zuckerberg says Marc Andreessen’s comments on India were ’deeply upsetting’
▻http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-distances-itself-from-marc-andreeseen-comments-2016-2?r
When entrepreneur and venture capitalist Vikram Chachra replied that it sounded like Andreessen was justifying “internet colonialism,” Andreessen responded in this now-deleted tweet:
