India Derailment: Zuckerberg has Facebook investor cope – Tagesspiegel

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Marc Andreessen he is one of the most famous investors in Silicon Valley. With his views on Indian history but he gave Facebook now a PR disaster.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has distanced itself in the discussion on prohibited in India free Internet service of the online network from one of its main investors. Web browser pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen had written after the decision in a quickly erased polemical Tweet: “anti-colonialism was economically disastrous for the Indian people for decades.” Especially this sentence sparked among other allegations Andre interest to the Indian government a storm the criticism.

Zuckerberg named Andre interest remarks on Wednesday “very upsetting” and stressed that she did not meet the views of Facebook or by him personally. Andreessen serves on the influential board of Facebook. He apologized on Twitter for his comments and assured that he was “100 percent against colonialism”

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Andreessen wants to express cautious

the 44-year-old Andreessen is among the elite of Silicon Valley as a co-inventor of the first web browser. As co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, he invested early on, among other things on Facebook and Twitter, as well as in the game company Zynga or deals site Groupon.

Andreessen had the Indian government accused of, among other things, it was “morally wrong “to deny the poorer population on ideological grounds free internet access. But above all, made his sentence to Indian history for trouble – India was until 1947 a British colony. He will continue to leave comments on these issues people with more knowledge and experience, Andreessen wrote now

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Painful defeat for Facebook

Indian authorities had put a stop on Monday Facebooks project for free access to some online services. Regulators prohibited telecom providers generally exemptions for individual services. Of which is also Facebook’s offer “Free Basics” affected, which also provided access to selected education, health and job services in addition to the world’s largest online network.

The sector supervision TRAI pointed to a strict implementation of the rules the so-called net neutrality, according to which all data must be treated equally in the nets. For Facebook, it was a painful defeat – the US group had organized in recent weeks in the face of the impending ban a massive PR campaign in the country. (AP)

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