Facebook starts another campaign against network neutrality to get support for Free Basics

that's one of the reasons why free basics is being protested against. this gives an undue advantage to established players who have other revenue sources and can do with the limitations of the platform. sure this is not as bad as airtel zero where the websites were going to pay airtel for the bandwidth. that was pretty fucked up compared to freebasics. the problem here is how a us based private company is using the world's largest social platform that they own/control to change public perception and is lobbying for policy change in their favor. as a lot of people have highlighted over multiple platforms, tomorrow this could be misused for other purposes.
 
person which are related to technical background and very active on social media(for purpose other than chatting,pics posting) are aware of side-effects of this but layman are supporting this in the name of free facebook and if at last no.of supporters are in majority and since TRAI is asking people's response over this and it may act according to majority of peoples
 
another issue with freebasics... even today when most people have access to full internet, it is impossible to communicate with some because they use whatsapp rather than an open platform. i refuse to get on whatsapp and this causes a lot of issues. i have had cases where people say that they no longer use email and hence would only accept files through whatsapp. i have to use my mom's phone for that.

so just imagine a world where a large segment of people can communicate online ONLY through whatsapp because that's the only messaging service available on freebasics? this gives incredible advantage to facebook (even though they do not need it the way things currently are). telegram and signal would probably not join the program because of privacy reasons.
 
thankfully this is not a popularity contest where the final decision would be based on the number of votes on either sides :D if this was a popularity contest, facebook would not be so frustrated right now. trai is unlikely to hire a big data scientist who can process millions of emails using cloud computing to decide how many mails are in support of freebasics and against freebasics. it is just not technically feasible.
 
By the way only multimedia files i.e. Audio,Video, contacts too can be sent over whatsapp. How do those people manage to send/Receive PDF and other formats who have stooped using emails ?
 
I am not active on WhatsApp. I am pretty sure you can send any file type using the app. I use Telegram and it support all file types.

I assume you are on WhatsApp so you may be right :D
 
no whatsapp don't support pdf and other stuff but hike does that. I like hike more than whatsapp but problem is that all my close frnds are on whatsapp
 
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