Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has written a forceful defense of the company’s plans to offer limited, free internet access in India, comparing free internet services like Facebook’s Free Basics service with libraries and public hospitals. In an op-ed written for The Times of India, Zuckerberg says that although libraries don’t offer every book to read and hospitals can’t cure every illness, they still provide a “world of good,” suggesting that just because free internet services only offer access to a limited number of sites — which, in the case of Free Basics, third-parties can apply to join but that Facebook ultimately controls — they’re still an essential public service.
Source: Zuckerberg compares free internet services to public libraries and hospitals | The Verge