Say NO To Facebook's Free Basics Campaign. You Have A Week To #SaveTheInternet.

Say NO To Facebook's Free Basics Campaign. You Have A Week To #SaveTheInternet.
The 7th of January is the last day to #savetheinternet in India. Scroll on to gain clarity on why the internet needs saving, and how you can help. 

“If you dictate what the poor should get, you take away their rights to choose what they think is best for them.”

What is Net Neutrality, and how does Internet.org violate it?
Internet.org
Image Source: BBC
Free Basics: Internet.org's reflection in the mirror
exactly

Watch this video by AIB which explains the inequality of Free Basics, or SnG's video on Saving the Internet here

Who can be against Free Basics? Zuckerberg asks, appalled
Let's the turn the tables for a second. What are Facebook's motives here, really? And why is he so focussed on India? 
Two-faced, and many layered. That's the nature of this beast.  
Facebook's Free Basics ad
So what can you do to #savetheinternet?

Words: Rhea Almeida 

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