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India's Net Neutrality Campaign Picks Up Steam, Sites Withdraw From Internet.org
First time accepted submitter arvin (916235) writes The Huffington Post reports on prominent Indian websites withdrawing from Facebook's internet.org initiative. The net neutrality debate in the country has focused on zero-rating, where ISPs offer a free data plan which provides access to a set of websites that pay to be included. Internet.org provides free access to Facebook, Bing, Wikipedia and a few other websites. Another similar service, Airtel Zero, lost its flagship partner as e-commerce company Flipkart withdrew following a social media backlash.
Net neutrality activists believe that as these plans proliferate, access to the open internet will become extremely expensive or unavailable, innovation will slow as for startups are prevented from reaching the market, and the competitive consumer ISP market will be replaced with a cartel negotiating against internet companies. In a campaign similar to that in the US, over 630,000 Indians sent responses to their regulator through the website savetheinternet.in.
Net neutrality activists believe that as these plans proliferate, access to the open internet will become extremely expensive or unavailable, innovation will slow as for startups are prevented from reaching the market, and the competitive consumer ISP market will be replaced with a cartel negotiating against internet companies. In a campaign similar to that in the US, over 630,000 Indians sent responses to their regulator through the website savetheinternet.in.
a free room in a spacious jail with lots of useful amenities.
On the plus side, I can see how it would be appealing to people without a lot of money who only care about the services offered.
On the minus side, it's still a jail.
If my memory still serves me correctly, the domain 'internet.org' used to belong to an independent organization which had nothing to do with fb
Take a look at archive.org copy of internet.org - https://web.archive.org/web/19...
The fact that the domain has been taken over by fb and is being used by fb to co-op (and con) people whom still without stable connection to the Net is that fb has proven itself to be a not-so-nice entity