{"id":51779,"date":"2015-09-24T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/facebooks_free_internet_access_program_in_developing_countries_provokes_bac\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:45:21","slug":"facebooks_free_internet_access_program_in_developing_countries_provokes_bac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51779","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Free Internet Access Program in Developing Countries Provokes Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Muhammad Maiyagy Gery heard about a new mobile app from Facebook Inc. that provides free Internet access in his native Indonesia, he was excited.<\/p>\n<p>But after testing it, the 24-year-old student from a mining town on the eastern edge of Borneo soon deleted the app, called Internet.org, frustrated that he was unable to access Google.com and some local Indonesian sites.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gery said Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is an \u201cinspiration in the tech world,\u201d\u009d but added that the company\u2019s free Internet effort is \u201cinadequate.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebooks-free-internet-access-program-in-developing-countries-provokes-backlash-1443119580?mod=trending_now_4\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Muhammad Maiyagy Gery heard about a new mobile app from Facebook Inc. that provides free Internet access in his native Indonesia, he was excited. But after testing it, the 24-year-old student from a mining town on the eastern edge<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51779\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,433,175,94,582,589,149,168,144,119,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}