Continuing its exchange of letters, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) called Facebook's campaign to garner support for its Free Basics as "crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll." In a letter dated January 18th, TRAI continued its scathing remarks and said that Facebook method of collecting answers for its Save Free Basics campaign did not have the consent of its users. "Equally of concern is your self-appointed spokesmanship on behalf of those who have sent responses to TRAI using your platform. It is noticed that you have not been authorized by your users to speak on behalf of them collectively. No disclosure in the act of sending a message to TRAI using your platform to this effect has been issued to users. The only act users have consented to is the following: 'By clicking send email, you agree to let Facebook send your name and this email to the TRAI'," the regulator said in its letter. TRAI added that in its view that this did not imply consent on part of the user allow Facebook to speak on their behalf. The letters are a continuation from the previous releases by TRAI which said that it did not get responses in support of Free Basics in time. TRAI clicked unsubscribe to Facebook's emails In a letter dated January 13th, Facebook's director of public policy Ankhi Das said that the TRAI blocked emails coming from Facebook on December 17th. "Our inquiry revealed that on December 17 at 05:51:52 GMT, an individual with access…
