I'm really, really proud to see my former colleague reaching the front page of HN.
I know the pain and struggle investigative journalism organizations face (especially in infosec). Going through all of this and reaching less people because some dickhead in the United States decided to add these countries randomly really pisses me off.
Even worse are the other countries chosen like Cambodia and Venezuela, which both have Free Basics, and are therefore completely cut off of counting on the Internet (or a part of the Internet selected by Facebook) to spread their activities. Bloggers, pizza shops, investigative journalism organizations... they're all screwed because of one group of dickheads in Silicon Valley.
I know the pain and struggle investigative journalism organizations face (especially in infosec). Going through all of this and reaching less people because some dickhead in the United States decided to add these countries randomly really pisses me off.
Even worse are the other countries chosen like Cambodia and Venezuela, which both have Free Basics, and are therefore completely cut off of counting on the Internet (or a part of the Internet selected by Facebook) to spread their activities. Bloggers, pizza shops, investigative journalism organizations... they're all screwed because of one group of dickheads in Silicon Valley.