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!
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 meansto support the "Digital India" campaign by the PM Modi Government.
Before changing your profile picture, had you once thought, Why Facebook will promote India's Project ? What is it getting in return?
Yes, it is a tactic by facebook, to promote Internet.org, which may potentially kill the Internet freedom in the Country.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 -
- Only Reliance users can use this Facebook's free Internet service, by this internet.org
- Internet.org gives 'free access' only to Facebook and its 50 partner websites. It means the users of these free internet service may only use these websites, which means nothing else but again, the promotion.
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. Then isn't it a violation of Net Neutrality?
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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