14 DAY TRIAL // During a Q&A session held on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg talked, among other things, about one of the latest issues to have garnered the public's interest: net neutrality.
Ever since the rules on net neutrality were officially published in the Federal Register and lawsuits started to pour in, the whole idea of net neutrality has resurfaced. Therefore, it would have been unusual if Facebook’s CEO had not been assailed with questions related to this subject.
As expected, he went on to express his full support for an open Internet, where Internet traffic would be the same for everyone. He also expressed his desire for big Internet providers to not “discriminate and limit access to services people want to use.”
Zuckerberg also stresses out the fact that projects like the one he is currently working on expanding, namely Internet.org, abide by the rules imposed by net neutrality.
Furthermore, he confirms that he plans to bring the Internet.org project to Europe as well, although he does not mention an exact date for when that will happen.
Mark Zuckerberg regularly organizes these sessions
After USTelecom filed a lawsuit shortly after the rules were published, and with AT&T quickly following the trend and ganging up on FTC for allegedly violating the US Constitution with its net neutrality rules, people were bound to express their curiosity on what the Facebook's co-founder had to say about the whole situation.
Mark Zuckerberg usually does this kind of sessions every few months, and every time he does them, his Facebook profile is flooded with various questions from his supporters or his critics.
He has to answer diverse questions which range from very serious ones, like the one on net neutrality or even the one coming from Shakira herself about technology and education for the poor, to more relaxed and funny ones like, “If you could be a biscuit, what biscuit would you be?”
Zuckerberg was also asked about his opinion on the Oculus VR, of which he said to be an “incredibly powerful as a communication medium as well.”
He also discussed his reading habits and talked about the A Year of Books challenge, which basically presupposes reading a new book every two weeks and discuss it online with the others in the comments section.