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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 06:27 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg
I just met with the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos - Presidente, and we announced the launch of Internet.org in Colombia to connect the whole country.
Before today, only about 50% of Colombians had access to the internet. By launching the Internet.org app on the Tigo network today, we're giving people free access to basic internet services for jobs, health, finance and communication.
Colombia is the first country in Latin America where we've launched Internet.org, and it's the fourth in the world after Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya.
We hope to spread Internet.org to more countries soon and we're excited to continue on the path of connecting the whole world.
Thanks for helping advance the facebook attention whoring fad to Colombia, Mark. You picked an excellent country to f... up. [/irony]
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 06:37 AM
I'm impressed. He convinces the president and introduces the whole country to free internet, just to have more fb users? Hats off for the hustle.
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 07:03 AM
Not this Zuckerberg again. Soon all Colombian women will be sitting online doing attention whoring. It's not just bad for men, womens' mental health probably decline due to this as has been seen in some internet frontier countries.
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 07:46 AM
Looks like he bought a suit.
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 07:59 AM
Ah yes, another instance of introducing the blessings of technology inorganically to communities which are incapable of installing and maintaining it themselves without outside assistance.
Good business plan for Facebook - no doubt here.
As for how this will benefit Colombia, it is far from a given that it will, as much as the language of the Colombian Government and Zukerberg try to hide that.
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 09:50 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 11:40 AM
More Colombians with internet access could only mean one thing, more Colombian camgirls.
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 12:38 PM
Spacex and Google have projects to do similar things around the world. It's inevitable that all countries will get internet at some point. It's just a matter of when and how it will be monitored.
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 12:55 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 01:13 PM
After all this Zuckerberg will go home and bed his Chinese "4" and think to himself with a smug sense of satisfaction "mission accomplished." Nothing is more beta bucks than this exhibition. Sounds like he got played by a third world politician.
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect all of Colombia to free internet
01-18-2015, 03:00 PM
The Zuck is going to be in deep shit with all these slimy third world gangster politicos. Play with fire and get burned.