After the withdrawal of Indian companies Internet.org Mark Zuckerberg published a post in which he defends the initiative, which aims to provide free Internet access, but restricted in countries emerging.
On Thursday, many Indian media and Web services said “no” to Internet.org, a free version and a flanged launched Internet by Facebook in nine emerging countries. They withdrew their applications service, accused of violating the rules of net neutrality.
Internet.org is an organization founded by Facebook in 2013 in partnership with major Web companies. She moved to India a few months ago, through the launch of an application to connect to the Internet for free. The user does not have to pay the consumption data: it is absorbed by the operators enforcement partners. It can access forty “services” free: news, weather, jobs, Google search … and of course Facebook. With this service, Mark Zuckerberg hopes to reach up to 800 million people in the world
Problem for Indian web companies. Facebook is who chooses what services will meet on Internet.org in partnership with local governments. For them, it is an attack on net neutrality. Under this concept, everyone should have equal access to the Internet and not discriminated against. Which is not the case on Internet.org, which offers users a limited selection of partner services. Cleartrip The tour was the first to withdraw from Internet.org, anxious “to influence the decisions of customers by imposing choice.”
In response to this outcry, Mark Zuckerberg responded to businesses in a posting on Facebook. And like any communication operation worthy of the name, it starts with a great story. Facebook boss says he visited the school of an Indian village recently connected to the Internet, “It was amazing to think that in this hall was perhaps a schoolboy with a great idea that could change the world. Now they can do it through the Internet. “
On the merits, the CEO of Facebook that” if someone can not afford a connection, it is always better to have a access [limit Internet] rather than no access at all. “
Mark Zuckerberg, who had committed to net neutrality in the American debate, protested the use the concept by Indian companies to justify their criticisms. “Net neutrality argument should not be used to prevent the most disadvantaged people in society access to opportunities,” he says.
In addition to the problem of Internet.org, India is engaged in a broad debate on net neutrality, supported by practices and claims of local telecoms. Recently, the operator Airtel has caused controversy by offering its users to connect to free some partner applications. They must pay for the program. In a country where mobile data consumption can be expensive, this operation provides a clear advantage for these applications. Indian operators also claim that free messaging apps such as Whatsapp, competing their paying calls and SMS, share their profits with them. That Indian regulators have so far refused.
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