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Zuckerberg Wants To Save Net Neutrality Free Basics in India

Free internet access with limited supplies: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg defended his initiative Free Basics in India. Opponents of the initiative to criticize the lack of net neutrality.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to save the Facebook initiative Free Basics on the subcontinent with an emotional appeal to the Indian public. The free offer with some Internet services to about weather and education is as important as public libraries and public schools, writes the Facebook founder in an opinion article, which was published in the Indian newspaper TOI.
Save Net Neutrality Free Basics in India

With the platform Free Basics initiative Internet.org users have limited access to the Internet without having to pay for it - about to Facebook, Whatsapp, grain prices, Wikipedia. The Indian telecom regulatory Trai had the only telecom operators of Free Basics prompted to stop the offer for the time being. Critics think the offer is contrary to the principle of net neutrality, because Facebook's choice of who should be accepted in the app. Zuckerberg sees it differently: Because everyone can join in, it was very well Mains neutral. Now Trai will look into the matter. 

Access to Jobs and Education

Free Basics could bring one billion people in India online, writes Zuckerberg. "If people have access to the Internet, they also have access to jobs, education, health care, communication." In India, still hundreds of millions of people live below the absolute poverty line, therefore have less than 1.90 US dollars a day to live. For them, the data packets are unaffordable for Internet access.

Facebook calls the people of India in double-page advertisements in major English-language newspapers, on billboards and in Facebook messages for days on this, to write Trai. The same make and activists of the initiative Save the Internet (Save the Internet) - and who oppose Free Basics: "We need you to tell Trai that any initiative that brings people online, to grant them access to the entire Internet, without discrimination ", they write.

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