Net Neutrality

It’s official: at long last, the Indian government will incorporate rules to ensure that all web traffic is treated fairly and that the internet remains a level playing field for all!

The country’s telecom authority lay down the facts clear on the table in bold: “The internet is an ‘open platform’,” and no internet service providers can engage in treating any content on this public platform with discrimination.

Net neutrality is the concept that prevents any company from creating Internet boundaries based on data girth or other factors.

TRAI has expressed its reservations about how Facebook tried to turn what was supposed to be a consultative exercise, into an opinion poll.

The Indian Internet has come together to support net neutrality and oppose Facebook's Free Basics initiative — which many claim is against the core principles of the Internet. Here's how they're banding together: elite and anonymous, across the shimmering data-streams of the electronic online.

In the current storm of debate around Facebook's Free Basics initiative, faculty members from the IITs and IISc have submitted a petition to the TRAI against Free Basics. Read on to know why they are rejecting this initiative outright.

Here's how you can help ensure net neutrality is not violated in India.

Here's how net neutrality can save the freedom to use the internet and the e-commerce industry that might fade away soon. We need to realise how crucial it is for everyone to come together and raise their voice.