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This App Lets You Piggyback Facebook's Free Internet to Access Any Sit

• motherboard.vice.com

 Interne?t.org, an app that gives mobile users free access to certain sites such as Google, Wikipedia and, of course, Facebook.

While the initiative has clearly positive goals, it's also been criticized as an "imperialistic" push for Facebook colonies, where novice Internet.org users will grow up thinking their restricted version of the web is the real internet.

To fight against that possibility, a 20-year-old developer from Paraguay is working on an app that tunnels the "regular" internet through Facebook Messenger, one of the services free to use on Internet.org's app. This allows Internet.org users to establish a link to the outside, unrestricted internet, circumventing restrictions.

Matias Insaurralde has been working on this project since 2013, with the simple goal of giving his fellow countrymen (Paraguay is an Internet.org testb?ed) as well as others, the chance to escape the walled garden of Internet.org.


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