#FreeBasicsMustFall

Published: Feb. 15, 2016, 6:56 a.m.

b'Facebook is still smarting from having Free Basics kicked out of India. Clearly no one was more upset by India\\u2019s emphatic rejection of Mark Zuckerberg\\u2019s walled garden project than venture capitalist and Facebook board member, Marc Andreessen, who took to Twitter last week to express his frustration at the country\\u2019s decision\\u2014 a move that was met by global outrage.\\n\\nNevertheless, we have Andreessen to thank for inspiring our discussion on this week\\u2019s episode of the African Tech Round-up, and re-igniting the debate around net neutrality, and whether companies like Facebook ought to be supported in their efforts to provide "internet lite" to the world\\u2019s poorest who would not otherwise access the web at all.\\n\\nMusic Credits:\\nMusic by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\\nMusic licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0'