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		r3bl on Nov 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's experiments with user behavior in Serbi... So what are you gonna do in Venezuela and Cambodia (also on this experiment) where people have and use Free Basics? Cut yourself off completely from your potential market because you don't want to have Facebook?

nsnick on Nov 15, 2017 [–]

Free Basics is a scam by Facebook to get more users hooked. India rightly rejected it.

r3bl on Nov 15, 2017 | [–]

Well other countries didn't reject it. And the battle wasn't won because India rejected it.

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