07.05.2015 - 07:13 [ Techdirt ]

Dangerous And Ridiculous: Facebook Won‘t Let Sites Join Its Internet.org Program If They Encrypt Traffic

Karl touched on this with his recent post on Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg defending his Internet.org and its walled garden of „zero rated“ services, but it deserves a separate post. You see, part of Zuckerberg‘s announcement was that Internet.org was expanding to let in other sites, but there are serious restrictions, and there‘s a big „sorry, you‘re not welcome“ for sites that use HTTPS to protect the privacy of their users: