r/conspiracy: Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is not, and should not be the internet

Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is not, and should not be the internet

131 2017-08-17 by wildfireonvenus

To understand why Mr. Zuckerberg was so thrilled, substitute the word “Facebook” for “Internet” in the above quote, because that is the objective of Facebook’s loftily (and dare we say, maliciously) named “Internet.org”.

Ask Helani Galpaya , a researcher with policy think tank LIRNEasia , who in 2012 came across a curious anomaly while researching “bottom of pyramid” telephone users in Indonesia. When asked questions about the Internet, most of the respondents said they didn’t use it. But when asked about Facebook, most of them said they used it often.

“In their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook,” concluded Rohan Samarajiva , LIRNEasia’s head.

This isn’t specific to Indonesia alone, as Christoph Stork, a researcher with Research ICT Africa would find out too . Stork was flummoxed when he saw that more Africans were saying they had used Facebook than they had the Internet, a statistical impossibility.

And that is exactly what Internet.org is - Zuckerberg’s ambitious project to confuse hundreds of millions of emerging market users into thinking that Facebook and the Internet are one and the same.

What Mr.Zuckerberg wants, is to take away from telecom operators the power to discriminate against websites, only so that Facebook can wield that power instead. The Internet should be neutral, he insists, so long as Facebook is allowed to play kingmaker in between.

http://m.hindustantimes.com/tech/dear-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-is-not-and-should-not-be-the-internet/story-w9S3uhnEYVP8L85EtbTqCO.html

13 comments

1 Hamsterzak 2017-08-17

Damn these psychological games

1 no1113 2017-08-17

"They're dumbfucks. They believe me."

Sincerely, your leader Murk Suckaberg.

1 fantastic_comment 2017-08-17

My answer http://deletefacebook.com

1 no1113 2017-08-17

Agreed.

Well, that or never get an account in the first place. That was my answer, but your's isn't bad either.

1 fantastic_comment 2017-08-17

Why I answer like that. Check this reddit list on what wrong with Facebook and why you should delete Facebook.

Part of this content was shared with the following results

r/bestof: u/fantastic_comment compiles a list of horrible things Facebook has done over the course: of 2016 [12.7k points and top 150 of r/bestof]
r/StallmanWasRight: Facebook 2016 Year in Review [3842 points and most popular post all time at r/StallmanWasRight]

And watch the recent documentaries:

ABC Australia Facebook: Cracking the Code on r/documentaries - link thread
BBC Panorama What Facebook Knows About You on r/unitedkingdom - link thread

This should be enough to delete your the account. Remember that

By staying on Facebook, you’re granting them permission to collect and use information about you, regardless of you even using the Internet. And by staying on, the data they collect on you gets used to create models about your closest friends and family, even the ones who opted out.

Check guide with step by step instructions to leave Facebook

1 no1113 2017-08-17

Upvote for the extra information for others to look at who want to delete their Facebook page.

1 Artyom619 2017-08-17

I've got a Facebook ad on this site. Irony?

1 jckwho 2017-08-17

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/27/16050446/facebook-net-neutrality-digital-colonialism-internet-org This is worthy of a read. No such thing as free, this is a dangerous road to venture down.

1 w0rdd 2017-08-17

/r/FuckTheZuck

1 fantastic_comment 2017-08-17

r/AntiFacebook is better

1 Aye_or_Nay 2017-08-17