Facebook’s Digital India just front for Internet.org
Source code of page reveals actual name of Digital India
By : rohit raj
Update: 2015-09-29 06:49 GMT
Kochi: Many Facebook users sported tricolor profile pictures to support the Digital India campaign but techies across the country have alleged foul play in the tri-colour campaign.
Several techies posted the screenshots of the source code (program instructions in their original form) of the page stating that Facebook’s Support Digital India’s actual name as per the code is “_internetOrgProfilePicture__prideAvatar”.
A section of social media using the famous quote ‘Code never lies’, attributed to the programmers, blamed Facebook for promoting its internet.org initiative.
According to Manu Zacharia, an internationally noted information security evangelist, “The source code as revealed on Twitter and other sites is highly suspicious as we cannot expect such a blunder from a top company like Facebook. Even if it were a bug, they could have rectified it in just 30 minutes. One should believe that through the campaign Facebook actually is promoting its internet.org”.
Another expert in the field, Anivar Joshina, also ridiculed the campaign saying that the move is against net-neutrality. If internet.org is launched, people can only access websites/services that Faceb-ook decides to host which is not free internet.
Another expert tweeted, “So basically all those who’ve changed their Facebook Profile Picture are taking pride in Internet.org, not Digital India?"
Internet.org is an initiative by Facebook with Samsung, Media Tec, Ericsson, Nokia, Opera Software and Qualcomm to offer free Internet services to developing nations.