{"id":617,"date":"2018-09-07T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T05:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.larskophal.ch\/press\/?p=617"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:31:27","slug":"in-the-philippines-facebook-is-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larskophal.ch\/press\/2018\/09\/in-the-philippines-facebook-is-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Philippines, Facebook IS internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larskophal.ch\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5178_Top_10_markets_for_facebook_by_percentage_reach_of_visitors_Large_V1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larskophal.ch\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5178_Top_10_markets_for_facebook_by_percentage_reach_of_visitors_Large_V1.jpg 753w, https:\/\/www.larskophal.ch\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5178_Top_10_markets_for_facebook_by_percentage_reach_of_visitors_Large_V1-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larskophal.ch\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5178_Top_10_markets_for_facebook_by_percentage_reach_of_visitors_Large_V1-315x300.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Internet neutrality is slowly disappearing everywhere, but in the Philippines it is already dead and gone, it probably never even existed. There are only two telecom companies, Globe and Smart, resulting in a bad duopoly situation. For no reason, I am with Globe, but I am pretty sure Smart is just as bad. In Port Barton, coverage is so poor it is impossible to go online for most of day time \u2013 except, strangely, Facebook. Facebook is ne<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">arly always accessible. Basically, Facebook IS internet for Filipinos in rural areas, that is all there is to see online. Why? The only explanation I can come up with: Facebook has secured a priority deal with the telecom duopoly, that enables it to be the only site millions of Filipinos can see on their phones every day. Also, when you buy a \u201cload\u201d (ie, buy data for surfing and\/or phone credit \u2013 in a place like Port Barton, where there are no landlines, prepayment is universal, I have never met anyone having a phone subscribtion), you are sometimes offered a \u201cfreebie\u201d of 1 extra GB \u2013 but only with a very limited choice what you can use this data for: it\u2019s either Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Viber, or some games like Pokemon. Choose one and that\u2019s it. Freedom of choice? No, that one is not available, sorry. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>I wrote this about 2 months ago for my blog, but never finished and published it. Today I stumble upon <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2018\/09\/how-facebooks-free-internet-helped-elect-a-dictator.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this interesting (though very biased) article<\/a>, that confirms and explains what I had noted. Wether President Duterte can, or can\u2019t, be considered a \u201cdictator\u201d is another matter entirely, but let&#8217;s say that even though I think it excessive to say the least, since I am no longer in Port Barton and therefore have daily access to newspapers and wikipedia, my own views have naturally become more nuanced &#8211; which kind of proves the article&#8217;s main point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet neutrality is slowly disappearing everywhere, but in the Philippines it is already dead and gone, it probably never even existed. There are only two telecom companies, Globe and Smart, resulting in a bad duopoly situation. For no reason, I am with Globe, but I am pretty sure Smart is just as bad. In Port &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,84,77],"tags":[75,46,40],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-philippines","category-port-barton","tag-philippines","tag-politique","tag-societe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In the Philippines, Facebook IS internet - Lars Kophal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.larskophal.ch\/press\/2018\/09\/in-the-philippines-facebook-is-internet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In the Philippines, Facebook IS internet - Lars Kophal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Internet neutrality is slowly disappearing everywhere, but in the Philippines it is already dead and gone, it probably never even existed. 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