[Chapter-delegates] Indian startups are pulling out of Facebook's Internet.org to protect net neutrality

[Faisal Hasan]

Hi Joly,

Thanks a lot for bringing this important issue. While I have been following
closely how India is dealing with this issue, to my surprise I found that
internet.org campaign has been given green signal in Bangladesh. From May
10 Bangladesh became the 10th country to enable this service.

I believe even though the chapters are raising awareness about this, the
issue needs a much bigger campaign as we are fighting against some big
players with lots of money. This has been a huge thing for the government
as they are trying to get public praise by saying they have enabled free
Internet for all. Not to mention that there is insufficient awareness about
net neutrality in the developing world.

I am surprised to see very little highlight on this issue on ISOC as a
whole. Is there any statement from ISOC about this? It is true that
internet.org will do more harm than good.

Thanks
Faisal Hasan
ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter



On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> Have any of our India Chapters taken a position on this? Or any elsewhere?
>
>
> http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/15/8423075/indian-startups-leave-facebook-internet-org-net-neutrality
>
> This morning Cleartrip, an Indian startup focused on travel, pulled out
> of Internet.org
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/04/15/internetorg-withdrawal_n_7071532.html?utm_hp_ref=india>,
> the charity spearheaded by Facebook to help spread internet access to parts
> of the world where many people lack connectivity. Three other members of
> the original coalition — NDTV, Newshunt, and the Times Group — also
> declared that they were pulling some or all of their services from
> Internet.org due to concerns over net neutrality.
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