# Professor Arun Sundararajan evaluates Facebook's free Internet initiative in India

1 Faculty News January 6, 2016 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/marketplace-tech-wednesday-january-6-2016?WT.mc_id=5a7205a39aa5c10d2b4fe62963e9eb7d) -- "This sounds like a good thing, but the catch is this free internet access is restricted to only a few sites that Facebook will allow these people to access... I think that the fear here is that the Internet is much more about Facebook. And so having a corporate entity controlling what you can and can't do over your Internet connection can be potentially damaging to inclusiveness in a country."

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