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Off to bed. Good night, India! 😀 — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 10, 2016

And for the record, I am opposed to colonialism, in any country. https://t.co/3ommgZssMm — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 10, 2016

I hereby withdraw from all future discussions of Indian economics or politics. 😀 Carry on... — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 10, 2016

NEW DELHI: American entrepreneur and member of Facebook's board of directors Marc Lowell Andreessen seems highly miffed with telecom regulator Trai's recent rejection of Facebook's Free Basics in India.So much so that the Silicon Valley's most celebrated venture capitalist and co-founder of Netscape browser publicly expressed his disappointment on Twitter and went on to say that the country would have been in much better economic shape had it been under the British rule. "Anti-colonialism has been catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now," wrote the founder of famed VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.Andreessen, however, later deleted the tweet after facing a barrage of angry tweets.Earlier this week, Trai barred differential pricing of data products, implying that controversial zero-rated products such as Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel Zero won't be allowed to be offered in the country, marking a significant win for the proponents of net neutrality "No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on basis of content," Trai said in a statement.Trai said that no service provider shall enter into any arrangement, agreement or contract, that has effect of discriminatory tariffs for data services being offered on basis of content. This in effect disallows subsidized data packages that offer access to only a select services, such as Whatsapp or Twitter, pack packages which are currently offered by various telcos to attract subscribers. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg too expressed his disappointment with the Trai's decision. "Today India's telecom regulator decided to restrict programs that provide free access to data. This restricts one of Internet.org's initiatives, Free Basics, as well as programs by other organizations that provide free access to data," said Zuckerberg in a post on his Facebook page.