Att vara inflytelserik på YouTube är avgörande för Modi när Indien förbereder sig för allmänna val senare i år, där 73-åringen strävar efter en tredje mandatperiod i rad. Den Google-ägda videodelningsplattformen har visat sig vara ett starkt verktyg för politiska budskap i landet, delvis på grund av sin stora användarbas: YouTube har 467 miljoner användare, medan Facebook har 314 miljoner och X (tidigare Twitter) har 27 miljoner, enligt den digitala insiktsplattformen DataReportal.
Parminder Jeet Singh, February 13, 2016
NET NEUTRALITY : As most public services go digital, it makes sense to ensure access to them free of data charges, as a citizen's right.
In its ruling on “Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services”, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has held that data services over the Internet are a commodity business whereby data cannot be discriminated on the basis of the content it carries. It also asserted its regulatory control over data services, which would be provided as a regulated public utility.
This is a historic decision setting a high bar for maintaining complete Net Neutrality, and thus sanctifying the Internet in the Indian law, as a model of equal and non-discriminatory communication, information-exchange and networking.
The airwaves, the newspapers and even the online space are now saturated with a Rs. 100 crore campaign proclaiming that Internet connectivity for the Indian poor is a gift from Facebook which a few ch