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Comment by ethanbond | Hacker News Reader

It probably didn't hurt. And it definitely didn't hurt as much as Zuckerberg's nearly colonialist attitude towards the Indian people and their government.

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I didnt have a problem with facebooks effort, till I saw the patronizing ads they put out. Zuck read India wrong or maybe it was Marc - either which ways India will be closed for anything like this for facebook now.

Maybe Zuck needs to work harder on his Chinese, not that its going to help when that mirage unfolds.

Facebook can expect to receive the same treatment in China as Uber did.

Or Google

Whoa. How is it nearly colonialist?

The only thing I saw was Marc's tweet about India being better under British rule.

That was Marc Andreessen, not Mark Zuckerberg. Marc A is on FB's board, though, and sadly a parody of his former self -- classic case of someone who got rich for luckily being in the right place at the wrong time, and coming out thinking he is a god.

Basically when the Indians started to sway against him, his PR campaign boiled down to, "we know what's best for you."

It's not a popular stance for a rich white westerner to take towards a previously (abusively) colonized country. Well, or anyone else. But especially not them.

There was a huge controversy when Facebook announced free basics. Here is a good source if you want to know more, http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/12/466...

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