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The video begins with children hanging out on a graffiti-covered rock overlooking a smog-shrouded city. Later, it shows trains so jammed with human bodies that arms and legs stick out of the cars. There’s a wedding, street performers, a carousel. In the background, we hear John F. Kennedy’s famous speech “A Strategy of Peace.” The video fades to black and a title card appears. It could be an ad for the United Nations, an anti-war organization, or the Peace Corps. Instead, it reads, “Today, the internet isn’t accessible for two thirds of the world. Imagine a world where it connects us all. Internet.org.” Internet.org is a new organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook. A press release from Facebook earlier this week described Internet.org as “a global partnership with the goal of making internet access available to the next 5 billion people.”


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