This morning, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India effectively banned Facebook’s Free Basics program from the country, ruling that the system and others like it violate the principles of net neutrality. It’s a big setback for Facebook’s Internet.org program, which looks to provide basic connectivity to poor nations — but in a post today, Mark Zuckerberg said the ruling would not push Internet.org out of India entirely. “Our mission is […]

In continuation of our ongoing series on Free Basics By Facebook, here we unveil the key reason that most people polled by the Clamorworld Survey consider it extremely flawed, motivated by individual gains and hardly a social cause. It has been rightly pointed out that Indians who can afford a reasonably good digital device like a mobile/tablet/computer to access facebook can surely pay for the other useful websites that are […]