Re: Why is Mark Zuckerberg angry at critics in India?

A key question that needs answering in this controversy, is what powers the
government even has, to stop something like Free Basics? TRAI only has
powers over tariffs. Unless you go back to the draconian Indian Telegraph
Act -- what a country, that uses 19th century legislation to stop 21st
century services...

My attitude towards Free Basics is no different to any challenges to net
neutrality. Looking at a packet to decide what to do with it, is highly
counter-productive in an age of optical routing and fiber optics. It is
cheaper to offer the full Internet, than to restrict it.

Then again, hackers will find workarounds. Back in the days when you had
email-only access, one way to gain some degree of web access was to mail
the url to a particular address, which fetched the page and mailed it back
to you.

It's a bad idea, not the first in the Indian telecom space. I believe we
should let the market deal with it, rather than setting a bad precedent.

Arun Mehta

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Ratnendra Pandey <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> But, it saddens me to note that business owners have to lie and spend
> money on lobbying with legislators and bribe government bureacrats just to
> be able to do honest business. Note the irony. You have to be dishonest to
> do business honestly.
>
>
>

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