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Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw

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Re: Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw

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Post by aravindet »

Facebook's internet.org plan to be somewhat hypocritical, given their (correct) stand in favor of net neutrality in the US.

internet.org isn't about the internet at all - it's more a proprietary network similar to Compuserve or AOL.

It's the same brand of philanthropy that Microsoft practices when it offers discounted Windows and Office to schools.

Re: Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

Today was phenomenal. The campaign has sent more than 620,000 email to TRAI (Indian equivalent of FCC) who wanted public opinion on whether Internet (or as they say, "Over-the-top services") should be regulated or not.

Cleartrip showed courage in being the first one to opt out of Internet.org. A few more soon followed.

Tomorrow could be amazing!

Edit: Very similar to US, comedians played a pivotal role in popularizing this issue. Here is the video that went viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfY1NKrzqi0

Re: Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw

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Post by ishansharma »

One thing to note is that there's no EFF like organisation and this is mostly done by volunteers [1].

This has also been largest response to any consultation by Indian government having received 600K+ responses through campaign sites[2][3]. Previous highest was 20000 mails in 1999.

[1]: Disclaimer: I am associated and helping the group.

[2]: http://savetheinternet.in/ People can submit response here.

[3]: http://netneutrality.in/ Info site.

Edit: Corrected URL #3.

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