Telegraph: Opposition on Internet.org keeps growing.

The world is speaking out against this fake version of the internet and withdrawing from the program. Add your voice at NoFakeInternet.org  Article by Sophie Curtis by the Telegraph Facebook's free internet project, Internet.org, is facing growing opposition, after a consortium of digital rights groups wrote an open letter to the company's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the initiative violates the principles of "net neutrality". 

The world is speaking out against this fake version of the internet and withdrawing from the program. Add your voice at NoFakeInternet.org 

Article by Sophie Curtis by the Telegraph

Facebook's free internet project, Internet.org, is facing growing opposition, after a consortium of digital rights groups wrote an open letter to the company's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the initiative violates the principles of "net neutrality". 

The letter, which is signed by 67 digital rights groups – including i Freedom Uganda, Ecuador's Usuarios Digitales and Indonesia's ICT Watch – states that Internet.org threatens freedom of expression, equality of opportunity, security, privacy and innovation. 

"It is our belief that Facebook is improperly defining net neutrality in public statements and building a walled garden in which the world's poorest people will only be able to access a limited set of insecure websites and services," the letter states. 

"Further, we are deeply concerned that Internet.org has been misleadingly marketed as providing access to the full Internet, when in fact it only provides access to a limited number of Internet-connected services that are approved by Facebook and local ISPs." 

Internet.org is a global partnership launched in 2013 with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. As well as Facebook, founding members include Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung. 

The first product to come out of the Internet.org partnership last year was a mobile app that allows people in developing countries to access basic health, employment and local information services for free over their mobile network.

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