Why I won't oppose Free Basics

I see a lot of analogies between the Free Basics debate and the Caste-based Reservation debate. I am amused, but not surprised, to see people who support one, oppose the other.

I feel everyone should have equal opportunities in life, irrespective of caste/religion/gender etc. I want the caste system itself to be annihilated. I also want everyone should have equal internet connectivity, irrespective of financial condition. I want financial inequality itself to be annihilated.

Caste-based reservation is an attempt to "assuage" caste-based discrimination, rather than annihilate it. Free basics is an attempt to "assuage" lack of internet connectivity rather than ensure everyone has equal connectivity. Both may spiral out of control and yield undesirable results in the long run. But they can be useful as a short-term firefighting measure.

Free basics violate net neutrality. Caste-based reservations violate secularism (separation of religion/caste from state). I strongly support net neutrality and secularism. But they are both larger-than-life, "holy cow" concepts. If a limited compromise with these can yield better practical results than strictly adhering to them, then I won't oppose.

I am a priviledged person - upper-caste hindu male from reasonably well-off family. I can afford education and jobs, and full internet connectivity. Many others cannot. I do not think I have any "moral right" to oppose an attempt to nominally/temporarily/partially assuage the deprivation of others. So, though I don't like reservations and free basics as policies, I won't say, I can't say I oppose them.

Most internet activists who are opposing free basics are priviledged people like me. I don't like that they are deciding for themselves what is good for the poor and what is bad. Instead of opposing free basics, why do they not unite and work on a technology that will ensure more unconnected people can connect to mainstream internet?? Then free basics will be rendered irrelevant. I would be happy to join such an effort.

I am leftist. I know that most leftists are against free basics. I won't join them. I push for constructive, I want solutions to problems. I don't want to spend time and energy in opposing a flawed solution. For me, my principles and conscience are more important than my nationality and ideology.