{"id":836,"date":"2015-03-30T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/?p=836"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:20:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:50:42","slug":"my-mail-to-trai-about-netneutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"My mail to TRAI about NetNeutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Following is the content of that mail that I sent to <a href=\"mailto:advqos@trai.gov.in?Subject=Regarding%20NetNeutrality\" target=\"_top\">TRAI<\/a>(advqos@trai.gov.in) with my views on NetNeutrality.\r\nI would encourage people to copy\/paste and send the same content or improvise it and send it to TRAI and express their support for NetNeutrality.\r\nHi,\r\n\r\nLast two-three decades have shown us the power of people communicating\r\nto each other independently, peer to peer over the internet. The world\r\nof Free Software, Wikipedia, Khanacademy, MOOCs(Massive Open Online\r\nCourses), Arxiv.org, to name a few would not have been possible had\r\npeople not been able to express, share, and spread their views over\r\ninternet. Internet has made it possible to decentralize knowledge and\r\nmake it accessible to people across the world.\r\n\r\nOn similar lines, Facebook, Gmail, Whatsapp, are just few examples of\r\nhow corporates have made use of internet and made available platforms to\r\nenable people to communicate easily with very little technical\r\nknowledge. They have come up with own business models across this also.\r\n\r\nBut though all these are the major and well known players in the\r\ninternet world, they just form a very small part of the actual internet\r\nworld. Internet comprises of millions of websites, each trying to\r\ncommunicate some idea to its viewers. Like Facebook provides a platform\r\nto communicate with your friends, a blogger like Avijit Roy may use his\r\nblog as a platform to spread his views on religion. Like Gmail provides\r\nmailing service, Riseup.net may provide mailing list services to\r\nactivists organizations. Whatsapp may provide services for people to\r\nchat using their mobile, where as TOR may be used by people to browse\r\ninternet anonymously.\r\n\r\nAll of these wide range of\r\nentities(individuals\/organizations\/corporates) are making use of\r\ninternet in their own way. Calling only a few of them OTT(Over The Top)\r\nService would definitely be wrong as each entity provides some or other\r\nservice. Some may make money over donations, some others by displaying\r\nads and some by selling ads. However that should not be a reason to\r\ndifferentiate their content or service over the internet.\r\n\r\nAll of the content over internet should be treated equally irrespective\r\nof how they are accessed, used or monetized. I would request government\r\nof India not to take steps towards breaking fundamental aspects of\r\ninternet which is one of the humanity's greatest invention. Net\r\nNeutrality is a must for future of Internet.\r\n\r\nRegards,\r\n\r\nVignesh Prabhu\r\nStudent, UVCE,\r\nVolunteer, FSMK\r\nBangalore\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is the content of that mail that I sent to TRAI(advqos@trai.gov.in) with my views on NetNeutrality. I would encourage people to copy\/paste and send the same content or improvise it and send it to TRAI and express their support for NetNeutrality. Hi, Last two-three decades have shown us the power of people communicating to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,170],"tags":[340,532,533],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-fsmk","category-internet","tag-mail","tag-netneutrality","tag-trai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}