In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 8th March 2020 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. Pakistani civil society groups boycott consultation on social media rules Over a hundred Pakistani civil society organisations have boycotted the country’s consultation on its notified social media regulations, Dawn reported. A statement signed by over thirty organisations and twice as many individuals, including former senators, decried the Pakistani government’s “Rules that were devised in bad faith”. Read it here OYO Rooms sued by Hyderabad-based hospitality firm for non-payment of dues A Hyderabad-based hospitality firm, Conclave Infratech, has filed an application against OYO Rooms’ parent company Oravel Stays for non-payment of dues, the Economic Times reported. OYO Rooms allegedly breached a contract for monthly payments of nearly ₹13 lakh/month since May 2018 amounting to a total of ₹82.5 lakh. Read it here 'No need for committee to enforce net neutrality': Airtel to TRAI A multi-stakeholder committee is not needed to over see net neutrality compliance in India, Airtel told TRAI in its submission. “Since Net-Neutrality principles are already a part of licensing conditions, and the DoT is fully empowered and capable of ensuring that licensees are compliant to licensing conditions, there is no need for establishing a Multi-Stakeholder body,” it said in its response to TRAI’s consultation paper. Read it here Facebook removes network of coordinated inauthentic behaviour linked to Indian digital marketing firm aRep Global Facebook removed a network of 37 Facebook…
