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

Richard Hill rhill at hill-a.ch
Thu May 14 01:51:28 PDT 2015


Dear Faisal,

 

You may also be interested in this blog:

 

  http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/05/13/global-internet-activists-give-thumbs-down-to-internetorg 

 

Best,

Richard

 

From: Richard Hill [mailto:rhill at hill-a.ch] 
Sent: mercredi, 13. mai 2015 16:38
To: 'Faisal Hasan'; 'Joly MacFie'
Cc: 'ISOC Chapter Delegates'; 'Open Forum'
Subject: RE: [Chapter-delegates] Indian startups are pulling out of Facebook's Internet.org to protect net neutrality

 

Dear Faisal,

 

There has been quite a bit of discussion of this topic on the ISOC Internet Policy list.  You will find the archive at:

 

  https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/private/internetpolicy/2015-May/thread.html 

 

The messages in question mostly have as subject “Worth Note!”.


Best,

Richard

 

From: Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Faisal Hasan
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 18:51
To: Joly MacFie
Cc: ISOC Chapter Delegates; Open Forum
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Indian startups are pulling out of Facebook's Internet.org to protect net neutrality

 

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,  <http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/04/15/internetorg-withdrawal_n_7071532.html?utm_hp_ref=india> pulled out of Internet.org, 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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