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A response to Facebook’s submission defending Internet.org in India

In its submission to the Department of Telecommunications, Facebook has said that more than 17 million people have expressed support for its Internet.org services, via SMS and the Internet.org Facebook page. The company has made a 9.9 mb PDF with comments available via a dropbox link in its submission. A sample from the PDF: MediaNama's take: Facebook ran what are, in our opinion, misleading campaigns asking people to support Internet.org. As indicated in this Quartz story, it didn't give people an option to not support Internet.org, or give it a thumbs down. It was also misrepresented its Internet.org group of services as free Internet services. (also read: - How Airtel Zero violates Net Neutrality - Google's Anti Net Neutrality tactics Already explicitly told @facebook 3 times I don't support Internet. Org. Now they remove "No" button. #shameless pic.twitter.com/w5hIo90oOS — Brij Bhasin (@brijbhasin) August 19, 2015 If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em #NetNeutrality pic.twitter.com/s7rRYGXluw — Amod Malviya (@amodm) August 11, 2015 And here I thought #SabKaInternet was ambiguous. Was this sent by Facebook? #SaveTheInternet #NetNeutrality pic.twitter.com/3JMEzsAlze — Karthik Balakrishnan (@karthikb351) May 20, 2015 Apart from this it's important to note that the DoT never said that comments could have been sent via platforms other than MyGov: @nixxin @lmirani @mojorojo Govt didn't say FB was an acceptable medium for sending comments. Am I allowed to conduct a survey of my own? — Aritra Das (@the_kindly_1) August 24, 2015 Our fisking of Facebook's comments (pdf) to the DoT on Net Neutrality:  Facebook:…

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Founder @ MediaNama. TED Fellow. Asia21 Fellow @ Asia Society. Co-founder SaveTheInternet.in and Internet Freedom Foundation. Advisory board @ CyberBRICS

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