Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Does your profile picture supports "Digital India"? Know the truth...

Before just following the crowd and changing your Facebook profile picture to tricolor in support of  "Digital India", please know the actual story behind this profile picture. Yes it may shock you. And you may also change your profile pic back to the previous one, reading this...

Since Modi and Zuckerberg changed their profile picture to the tricolor, everyone is just following the same, supporting the Digital India campaign (as it states)... Well it doesn't!

 Changing Your Profile Picture Means You Have Automatically Voted Against Net Neutrality.For every profile picture that is changed, a vote goes in support of internet.org.

Just hours after the meeting of Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27 September at Facebook’s Headquarter, Facebook launched a new tool fb.com/supportdigitalindia to change your Facebook profile picture to a Tricolor shade of the Indian Flag. It states that it means
Before changing your profile picture, had you once thought, ? What is it getting in return? 
Yes, it is a tactic by facebook, to promote Internet.org, which may
The Internet.org  is a partnership between  Facebook and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less developed countries.

See, how promoting internet.org will help Facebook -

So how does it mean, "a vote against net neutrality" ?

  •  If you are subjected to particular limited websites, if your internet provider is deciding what are you going to access on the internet.

Let us see something...

  • Go to -> fb.com/supportdigitalindia -> right click -> view page source  or just press ctrl + U
A page will be open with the source code 

  •  Press ctrl +  F (to search) -> search for "internetorg" 
    You will find this-


    Which means it is somehow related to internet.org

    So, at last I would like to say, please think before changing your profile pictures.
    It's not the right place to show your patriotism. 


     












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