India’s ban on Facebook’s Free Basics has provoked a range of responses, from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s disappointed reaction to World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee’s supportive tweet for net neutrality
Today, Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen jumped into the discussion with tweets comparing Free Basics to colonialism and suggesting that Indians were heading for economic disaster by banning it.
See also: Why India rejected Facebook’s ‘free’ version of the Internet
Responding to India’s telecom regulator’s recent prohibitory order on differential pricing for data, Andressen began by calling the ban on Free Basics “morally wrong”, and went on to tweet that “anti-colonialism” had been”economically catastrophic for Indian people for decades.” …
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Facebook board member Marc Andreessen offends India with colonialism tweets
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