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Take Immediate Action if You Want to Save Your Internet

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If you have been on the internet for the past few days you might have heard the buzz on 'save the internet' and 'net neutrality'. So what exactly is the fuss all about?

Net Neutrality (according to Wikipedia):

Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. 

In simple words whether you want to go to a small website by a local blogger or an extremely popular social media website they should both be treated the same by your operator and should not only be accessible but also should load at the same speed irrespective of who your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is.

So what is the problem by the way?

The telecos have been relaxing their lazy arses refusing to innovate, when they had all the resources. So when finally someone does come up with a brilliant idea and succeeds in materialising it, they go all burn-burn. They want 'their cut' from his profit. This of course is unacceptable and most of the time they are not able to feed on that person's labour. As a result what they are going to do is make their own (most of the time low quality) version of the real product and make it available to their consumers for free whereby charging you your kidney's worth to access the original product that you have become used to. For example if airtel does not like YouTube they will give you access to their own product Wynk and you will be forced to play a hell lot of money if you want YouTube!

So basically we are going to have to pay for each and every website that we want to visit in case we are not comfortable with the crappy alternatives they provide.

What's worse?

Innovation and technology (related to the internet) will no longer be synonymous with brilliant ideas but with deeper pockets. That means only the giants in the industry will survive, completely amputating the smaller yet potential competitors.

So they expect to get away with this sh*t?

Well, they have given some reasons for doing so, which again is undoubtedly bullsh**. They say that these independent firms are hurting them financially which is untrue because they have more than realized their investment to create the infrastructure and is still making money.There are other excuses too which you can find in the original consultation paper (link given below).

So what can you do to stop this and save the internet?

Simply log on to http://www.savetheinternet.in/ and follow the instructions and within two clicks you you can send your response to TRAI. All the hard work of writing an entire email has been previously done for you. So just do it now. Apart from that spread the word to everyone you know who uses the internet.

You can read the full (118 pages) consultation paper here. 

or you can read the summarized version (by Nikhil Pahwa) here.

Do watch AIB's take on this matter below:

In the USA a similar incident occurred of which you can read more about here.
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