This is an absolutely crucial piece; it thoroughly unmasks the larger scope and forces behind Facebook’s attempt to digitally colonize India, it offers a textbook example of the works of Post-colonialism today, and it shows how the current Internet business model of free services in exchange for privacy and freedom, works hand in hand with the surrepticious appropriation and control of natural resources.

Dr. Vandana Shiva clearly outlines how “what Monsanto has done by pushing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) laws and patents on seeds, Zuckerberg is attempting to do to internet freedom in India.”

The disgusting un-freedom that results of the realm of the proprietary extends well beyond the Internet.