Zuckerberg calls Andreessen’s comments on India ‘upsetting’

Facebook’s Free Basics app provided some internet services for the users of course including Facebook but did not take in everything on the internet world. Facebook CEO came with this with w a motive of connecting the people who are not connected because they could not afford the data plans offered by the telecom companies. But eventually the TRAI rejected the Facebook’s Free Basics App.

After the rejection a lot of experts including the CEO himself took it to Facebook and twitter to express their view points and give comments on the TRAI’s decision. Lately leading venture capitalist Marc Andreessen took it to twitter and wrote, “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now.” He also wrote, “Another in a long line of economically suicidal decisions made by the Indian government against its own citizens.”

Leap of net neutrality from “carriers shall not charge some content more” to “poor people shall not get free partial Internet” = astounding.

— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 10, 2016

His comments brought a storm on twitter and made the following people tweet further on the issue and particularly his comment.

Denying world’s poorest free partial Internet connectivity when today they have none, for ideological reasons, strikes me as morally wrong.

— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 10, 2016

On his tweets, the netizens took down to twitter and here’s what they said,

No one should have stretched that discussion in such manner. ~A fanboy of @pmarca and supporter of #TRAI stand. https://t.co/Oz2yLkLAk2

— Vijay Shekhar (@vijayshekhar) February 10, 2016

And,

yup @pmarca and @facebook clearly see themselves as the new East India Co colonial saviours to poor brown India https://t.co/DG29aAyn2r

— Gayatri Jayaraman (@Gayatri__J) February 10, 2016

Andreessen is better known as the founder of web browsers Mosaic and Netscape.
After these reactions, he tweeted,

I hereby withdraw from all future discussions of Indian economics or politics. 😀 Carry on…

— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 10, 2016

And for the record, I am opposed to colonialism, in any country. https://t.co/3ommgZssMm

— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 10, 2016

The CEO of Facebook seemed disappointed on the tweets of Marc Andreessen and he took it to Facebook and said, “I want to respond to Marc Andreessen’s comments about India yesterday. I found the comments deeply upsetting, and they do not represent the way Facebook or I think at all.”