Tech Firstpost : Manu Joseph is widely considered to be a particularly accomplished novelist. As an Internet policy analyst, however, he has trouble telling fact from fiction. Writing in the New York Times on 16 September, Mr Joseph – newly reborn as an admirer rather than a skeptic of Mark Zuckerberg’s altruism – hotly defends Mr Zuckerberg’s “Internet.org” scheme. He accuses of gluttony those of us who think the world’s poor deserve the same security and openness of the Internet as the world’s rich. We use all the broadband in India, Mr Joseph says; therefore we can afford to condescend to the poor by demanding for them the same Internet we use and that they, he says, will never be able to afford, unless they get the shoddy equivalent offered by Zuckerberg.Click here to know more.
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