Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has written a forceful defense of the company’s plans to offer limited, free internet access in India, comparing Facebook’s Free Basics service with libraries and public hospitals. In an op-ed written for The Times of India, Zuckerberg says that although libraries don’t offer every book to read and hospitals can’t cure every illness, they still provide a “world of good,” suggesting that just because free internet services like Free Basics only offer access to a limited number of sites — which third-parties can apply to join but that Facebook ultimately controls — they’re still an essential public service.
From Zuckerberg compares free internet services to public libraries and hospitals | The Verge
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