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That businessman/reality TV star who just won the New Hampshire primary is far from the only famous person addicted to sharing his current thoughts and mood on Twitter. When you do that, you're bound to eventually make a mistake that has consequences. This time it was Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of Netscape (and lead developer for the Mosaic Web browser before that), who got busted for tweeting a thought that shouldn't have left the hotel bar:
Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?
Indians complained; evidently they've grown accustomed to having their own country. It was noticed that Andreessen sits on the board of Facebook, which has been unsuccessfully trying to peddle free Internet service (featuring Facebook, of course) to India for awhile. Oops. Mark Zuckerberg wasn't pleased.
Andreessen, a master of the multi-part tweet, quickly backpedaled. And the original tweet was deleted.
takyon: The Register's Andrew Orlowski has a partial defense of Andreessen's comments that you may find illuminating and/or entertaining.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 11 2016, @06:53PM
Having reread the article, I would say that MA has a point. The internet *may* be a lesser need for those of us with clean water, secure housing and western infrastructure.
If they were delivering "the internet" nobody would have a problem with it. This was some Facebook-approved list of sites, which is why people are opposed.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by opinionated_science on Thursday February 11 2016, @06:59PM
so lobby the site list, but it is still an improvement no?