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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 21 Aug 2013

    Some of you seem to think it’s a binary choice between ‘no access to the Internet’ & ‘access to the Internet by Facebook/Google’. It’s not.

    12:56 AM - 21 Aug 2013
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      1. Steve Streza‏Verified account @SteveStreza 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral If the worst thing that happened was a few ads and tracking, in exchange for access to the wealth of all human knowledge, that’s good.

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      1. Ivanka Majic‏Verified account @ivanka 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral I think it's worse than that. For many people google or Facebook *are* the internet.

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      2. Steve Streza‏Verified account @SteveStreza 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral And in the 20 years of there being no Internet access to the third world, where has the choice been? It’s nonexistent.

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      3. Martin Pilkington‏ @pilky 21 Aug 2013
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        @SteveStreza @aral Where the Internet has failed to reach, mobile phones have been picking up the slack remarkably well

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      1. Elliot Ross‏ @iamelliot 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral frustrating thing is all the other providers will follow this model, eg. sky etc. like AOL all over again

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      2. Steve Streza‏Verified account @SteveStreza 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral Internet access actively improves lives. You’ve made up this notion that it would require Facebook as your sole argument against it.

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      3.  👨🏾‍💻 Kam Banwait‏ @ScriptedPixels 21 Aug 2013
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        @SteveStreza @aral hmm, will this be a flop like Facebook Home? Why not put the effort in to providing essentials, like food/water, instead?

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      1. Igor Elland‏ @elland 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral people forgot we had the www since the 90s and started thinking facebook invented it. 😞

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      1. Nikolai Onken‏ @nonken 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral there is twitter ;)

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      1. Lewis‏ @LewisDorigo 21 Aug 2013
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        @aral Though, I’m sure both companies would love if that were the case, and are trying to make it a reality…

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