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As Swartz fought for, what we ideally need is government information in the public domain and people’s personal data being secret.

The Indian government has spent much of the last year trying to craft net neutrality rules, and had recently been fielding public...

Karl touched on this with his recent post on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg defending his Internet.org and its walled garden of...

Last week we noted that India had shut down Facebook's Free Basics program, arguing the company's plan for zero rating...

Whatsapp. >> he was brilliant to acquire these services. it was a hedging strategy that has worked because the core platform is beginning to decline in developed countries like the united states even as instagram and whatsapp are in no way declining anywhere. >> 1.4 billion active users and the company valued at $200 billion. zuckerberg pushed the company to expand in developing countries. part of his long time plan to connect the world. >> only about a third of the people in the world have any ...

Whats app. >> he was brilliant to acquire these services a hedging strategy that worked because the core platform is beginning to decline in developed countries like the united states even as instagram and whats app are in no way declining anywhere. >> 1.4 billion active users and the company valued at $200 billion. zuckerberg pushed the company to expand in developing countries part of his long time plan to connect the world. >> only about a third of the people in the world have any access to t...

The now infamous mark zuckerberg says they only learned about all of these problems after the u.s. election. that doesnt look very true. because facebook is a global company and it was ground zero for this putin/duterte playbook long before the election. there was a whole scandal in that country, the philippines, over fake news and bots and the election which was, wait for it, held in may 2016, long before ours. and a lot of this goes back to 2015 when facebook first partnered with the filipino ...

Way, by providing internet access to the entire world. the idea is called internet.org, its target? the 5 billion people around the globe without access to the net. >> here we use things like facebook to share news and catch up with our friends but there, theyre going to use it to decide what kind of government they want, get access to health care for the first time ever, connect with family hundreds of miles away that they havent seen in decades. getting access to the internet is a really big d...

Cuomo. >> the way i like to live, every day i wake up, what can i do to have the biggest positive impact. i spend almost all my time on facebook. i think giving people the power to share is one of the most profound changes happening in the world today. getting the next 5 billion people to have access to the internet i think is one of the most important problems in my generation. >> zuckerbergs campaign is called internet.org, and mobile devices will be key. he said hes got big tech companies to ...

Of his. also you have to look the at the savvy. we see it with his idea of internet.org, reaching out to his competitors. on immigration his ideas sound lefty about paths to immigration and citizenship but the first thing hes asking for is tighter border security. the politicians hes embracing, chris cuomo, later today, hes meeting with senator mark rubio, rubio is going to visit the campus, so hes a very savvy guy, hoody and all. >> i wanted to ask you, did he give a time frame of when he think...