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At one point, 67 human rights groups signed an open letter to Zuckerberg that accused Facebook of “building a walled garden in which the world’s poorest people will only be able to access a limited set of insecure websites and services.” Read here

Social Media Platforms also follow the basic principle: " Garbage in and Garbage out"

In India, we are fed up with right wings people who do always communal postings. We have a right-wing orthodox government. However, our constitution is strong and the judiciary is less corrupted.

But your single posting against the government, you can get an arrest and thereafter, you go for long battle to save your self from jail.

Gandhi : " Truth is never universal"

Facebook keeps a good relationship with developing countries' governments for a conducive environment for its growth.

Facebook agreed to censor "anti-state" content in Vietnam. But how Facebook will consider it is anti-government or anti-democratic? Simply, every post is not garbage. It may be anti-government but not anti-democratic.

Recently, Facebook's Internet.org was thrown in the dustbin by the people of India and many other countries.