Cory Doctorow on Nostr: These "#ZeroRating" programs charged subscribers by the byte to reach any service ...
These "#ZeroRating" programs charged subscribers by the byte to reach any service *except* Facebook and its partners. Facebook claimed that this would "bridge the #DigitalDivide," by corralling "the next billion internet users" into using its services.
The fact that this would make "Facebook" synonymous with "the internet" was just an accidental, regrettable side-effect.
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