Carthic S Let me explain.

Carthic S Let me explain. The data services are cheap as long as you stick to informing yourself. Data services become expensive when you want content with heavy size like videos (Facebook or Free Basics don’t provide these content).

For being informed you can get internet packs starting from Rs. 9 (US $ 0.11). This is cheap. You can browse through the entire internet. This is not expensive.

Facebook is making a walled garden. The problem is they can even manipulate the information they provide to their customers. Now, when you don’t have open internet how will you verify the information? You have to believe what you have. This is dangerous.

We don’t want the internet to what television is now. They are paid enough to manipulate people. We won’t allow this to happen to the internet , this is the reason we fight.

The kind of data which free basics provide are mostly text based and restricted. As I said you can get better access to information with these cheap data packs starting at Rs.9 (US $ 0.11)

You also need to understand Facebook is a company for profit. If they spend millions of dollars on free basics ads in India, do you think its for charity?

They are tricking people with the whole idea of “Free Internet”. A person who has access to a phone can surely afford the data packs I mentioned.

Say, you are being offered junk food free of cost (This can be harmful for your body). The healthy food cost $0.50. Which is better? The free food which you later pay a heavy price for or the healthy food?

Don’t get carried away by the words “Free Internet”. It’s not free. You will pay the price for it. The so called “Free Social Network” has sold the data of it’s users to the corporates already. People have paid the price by compromising their privacy.