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The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback
Until Mark Zuckerberg arrived in a bright orange helicopter in October 2014, Chandauli had never seen a celebrity visitor. One of 44,795 villages in the state of Rajasthan, Chandauli is only three or four hours’ drive from Delhi, but it exists alone and forgotten, tucked away, a kilometre off a quiet highway. Last year, when a local boy used the internet to buy a used motorcycle, astonished villagers called him an online shopping hero.
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Seems to me like a fairly transparent bid for control over how people use the internet in developing regions. I'd say it makes sense for Egypt and India to refuse