{"id":12952,"date":"2015-04-18T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/so-when-the-poor-who-in-theory-cant-afford-a-net\/"},"modified":"2015-04-18T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T20:55:47","slug":"so-when-the-poor-who-in-theory-cant-afford-a-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/so-when-the-poor-who-in-theory-cant-afford-a-net\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So when the poor, who in theory can\u2019t afford a net connection come to the Facebook Zero service confusingly called Internet.org, they\u2019re made to believe they\u2019re on the internet while in reality they\u2019re only on Facebook and a few hand-picked sites.<br \/>\nAnd the sites too are picked in secret under some unknown process. For instance, Facebook chose to offer the distant-second search engine Bing instead of industry-leading Google. Why? Is it rivalry with Google? Or because of Microsoft\u2019s stake in Facebook? And then Facebook\u2019s Zero product features a tiny job site like Babajob instead of the industry-leading Naukri. Why? So that the poor have fewer job options? No one knows. Facebook doesn\u2019t feature YouTube\u2014the largest video site in the world and an immense education resource \u2014but allows its own videos in full. It doesn\u2019t really look like charity any more, does it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/385821\/poor-internet-for-poor-people-why-facebooks-internet-org-amounts-to-economic-racism\/\">Poor internet for poor people: Why Facebook\u2019s Internet.org amounts to economic racism \u2013 Quartz<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">iamdanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when the poor, who in theory can\u2019t afford a net connection come to the Facebook Zero service confusingly called Internet.org, they\u2019re made to believe they\u2019re on the internet while in reality they\u2019re only on Facebook and a few hand-picked sites. And the sites too are picked in secret under some unknown process. For instance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[464],"class_list":["post-12952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-company-store","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3mU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}