Monday, 13 April 2015

Over one lakh emails sent to Trai: Go ahead, Save the Internet

Over one lakh emails sent to Trai: Go ahead, Save the Internet
The only topic that everyone is debating about on the Internet is Net Neutrality. In layman words, Net neutrality means that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favouring or blocking particular products or websites.
Net neutrality, is extremely important. After all, Tim Berners-Lee who invented the Internet had opened this platform to each and everyone and not just to a few companies or a select group of people. But unfortunately, there are a few telecom companies out there which want to seize away this liberty. It is not ethically correct to the public that they are imposed to pay extra for faster Internet speed to a particular site/service.
Protesting against these new rules, a website called www.savetheinternet.in has been set up where anyone can send a mail directly to Trai, expressing their grief and discomfort about how telecom carriers are snatching away free Internet from them.
As of now, there have been over one lakh emails that have been sent to Trai.
The only time before this, the maximum submissions to a government consultation was 18,000, for the New Telecom Policy in 1999.
Posted by : Gizmeon

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