Net Neutrality

Twitter and some of the popular sites are flooding with calling each other's support for Internet's freedom, popularly known as Net Neutrality.

The fundamental principle on which Internet was designed and functions to this day is, that there is no partiality to any kind of data or users or any specific kind of content or section of human beings.

It is the open standard of the Internet that allowed some of the most popular websites like Reddit, Amazon, Google, Facebook to continue to exist and flourish.

All these companies were companies that started small and could reach to their consumers only because of the open standards of the Internet.

Imagine if Internet was a Road with two lanes and each one of us had to pay extra to go on a faster lane, assuming hypothetically that there exists a faster lane than the current one.

What is a faster lane anyway?

Internet Service Providers like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner are lobbying In the US to allow for a law to pass to allow charging content providers for access to the hypothetical fast lane.

That is mockery! 

Large number of companies are against passing this legislation.

Now, this may not seem a big deal for Indian web companies, but since most of the Indian web companies are either having their content served from US or are having consumers in US and around the globe, the effect would be as evident the Lehman Brothers debacle in 2009.

So, lets stop being Ostrich and come out and support.

Here's how you can do it: https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/

Here's a simpler and hilarious explanation from the witty Brit and my favorite Internet newsreader John Oliver