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So - I wonder how Facebook will respond to their market penetration and lock-in effort being declared illegal, as granting access to one set of sites for free and not allowing access to others surely falls under this legislation.

I expect that they'll continue business as usual, and will drag out the battle until they have a captive and indoctrinated audience (after all, they control the content, so you can be sure folks won't be reading about this, but they will be reading about how internet.org gives you freedom and is great and wonderful) who will push the government in favour of banning non-discriminatory pricing.



they control the content, so you can be sure folks won't be reading about this

Unless they just go to https://www.facebook.com/netneutralityin/


I think there were reports of savetheinternet.in posts being shadowbanned (i.e, a post containing this link is not visible in others' TLs) or something, but I don't recall exactly what was happening or if it was verifiable.


You are undermining the popular narrative with your facts and what-not.


I've been here over a year, so I'm allowed [0] to complain that this comment is contributing to HN morphing into reddit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


They will offer all of the web in free package, throttled to 100bytes/second. Because current legislation was solely about pricing.


Now that's something we actually can accept. 100bytes/sec is too low for any practical use but 64kbps-128kbps is a good speed.




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