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BS. China ends up paying huge cost for this censorship which the government too acknowledges. Youtube sensations are softpowers. A kid can learn million skills by visiting youtube. If you don't have that you have a backward society. China is wasting useful capital on reinventing the wheel that could have gone into building something even greater.

(Do we really save $10 by cutting our own hair at home?)

Heard of health insurance ?

Not sure why you are downvoted but this makes sense. If you want free education then you must promise to pay for it in future rest of your life.

That is personal anual income and not family income I suppose. Remember that India has around 30% of people far too young to use cellphones. A family might have one phone and will happily spend $28 per year for the $30GB data per quarter. Also it is mostly prepaid with hundreds of plans to chose from so people chose based on their needs.

Smartphones are extremely important part of India's way of life as almost everything else is regulated to death. It is a ray of light for most poor people and you will find people who might not have a toilet but will own an android smartphone.

Most people do not go to college and still pay for income tax.

> For one, taking credit for something they have not delivered.

Google has provided free wi-fi across various Indian railway stations which I am told carries more traffic than entire cellular 3G-4G traffic. India has 13000 trains running at any given time and carries over 8B passengers every year (legally).

Google has put a lot of efforts in providing Google services in over 10 different Indian languages. That is why my driver is able to use Google maps. He does not understand English. Google like many other tech giants has surely played an important role in making Indians use internet more and more.

I recently met Chinese Commissioner at a party and he told me that the political class thinks of censorship as a weakness in their society and is fully aware that it is going to hit them badly.

He was like the censorship is more driven by vested and corrupt interests more than competence of the communist party.

This is the reason why I sympathize with drug dealers more than law enforcement officers.

We do not know about their other investments that tanked. This is how investment world generally works. You lose most your bets but the one bet that gives result pays for it and more.

May be France's shitty tax regime is more to blame here. French government should work with Apple to come up with a simplified tax code or show some balls and expel Apple from the country.

Well, may be people were shitting on SF streets well before Twitter and Facebook but the stink affects the current people and they might want to do something about it today.

Tech people are mostly useless to solve societal problems as the indoor only geeks are not very smart at realizing the real world problems.

Okay then he should do something else.

> you want to test 4 year olds to see what school they deserve to be in?

Yes. That is how it happens in urban India. Even for nursery admissions schools interview both the kid and parents to see if they have potential.

you are welcome to leave.

As a member of tech community I support Ajit Pai and I think what he is doing is good for the open-ness of the internet.

I support Ajit's argument here. Fast lanes exist in other countries and it is saving money for them.

Just for the record I support Ajit Pai on this issue. Putting this comment just to show that not all on HN disagree with FCC.

> There's a 3 hour test you take in order to be admitted. 900 or so kids are admitted.

There is nothing wrong in segregating kids based on their ability. Public universities use tests to take the best kids and this should happen at all levels. A black kid who is smart should not be held back just because he lives in bad neighborhood. He should get into a better school if he can score more.

People who lament how public schooling sucks often want government to fund higher education without realizing results would be horrible.

Public schools work only for Asians and white because they live in good neighborhoods and take responsibility of their children's academic performance. For Blacks and Hispanics the situation is very very bleak and these people are simply be defrauded by the government.

It is just a preference thing. I have always preferred FF tools over Chrome dev tools.

Lol. if this bill passes I am resigning from the current startup and joining Google or Facebook. This is idiotic.

Yes, but you need to realize that land plays a crucial role in our environment and rich people are in a better position to utilize resources with attention to environment than poor people. All the zoning laws that make rents high are actually good for environment and help us fight climate change.

Are you saying the company should prioritize reducing CEO salary by finding a "potential" cheap guy over someone who is already doing a good job ?

Din't Ben and Jerry tried something like this and nearly killed their company twice ?

I had already clarified it in my original comment.

Sure except nowhere close to the way they do in India. I remember how surprised a Pakistani journalist was to see Indian women riding two wheelers. I am not refering to mere get a job but also to step out of the house and compete in the open market for all sort of work.

Single Sex education was introduced in India by various Church run schools and from my own personal experience over couple of generations the model is totally frowned upon by most people.

Girls who work in that environment grow up without great interaction with boys and face a lot of trouble in future. However this is India where women can work etc. In Islamic oppressive countries however things might be different.

EU lost ? or the governments lost ? It is a big difference actually.

Is using words like "sell-out" for a professional doing his job consistent with HN policies?

This is a genuine question and not a rhetorical one.