As India considers net neutrality, Facebook mounts a lobbying campaign
http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0111/As-India-considers-net-neutrality-Facebook-mounts-a-lobbying-campaign
But many of these comments, the regulator said in a statement,
are "basically template responses and the content are identical
in nature." While they contained individual users' mobile
numbers, they appeared to repeat Facebook's own talking points
about the service instead of addressing the regulators'
questions about "differential pricing," the practice of charging
different amounts to users for the same Internet service. Some
respondents using Facebook Mail addresses appeared to indicate
that Facebook had unwitting gotten users to commit their names
to support the services without their knowledge. "I do not
support this, it is a Scam by Facebook!" wrote a user named
Abhay Bhatia. Another user, identified as Girjia Sankar, wrote
last month, "please do not get confused by any attempt to harm
Net Neutrality done by Facebook...I know Basic [I]nternet is
everyone's right to get BUT not by harming the Basic Principles
of Net Neutrality!"
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