India Now Has the 'World's Strongest' Net Neutrality Rules (cnn.com) 56
India has just adopted tough new rules guaranteeing an open and fair internet for nearly half a billion people. From a report: The government has taken an "unambiguous stand" on the issue by endorsing net neutrality rules proposed last November, India's telecom regulator said on Thursday. Net neutrality rules require internet providers to treat all online content the same, preventing them from favoring -- or withholding -- access to certain websites, services or apps. The principle is under attack in America, where the Trump administration repealed federal laws last month, but has been staunchly defended in India in the face of attempts by global tech companies such as Facebook to offer stripped-down internet access.
Some sanity, somewhere (Score:5, Insightful)
Kudos to them, then.
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That's because it's legal for a man to rape his wife and for men in general to rape women in India. Those don't get counted in the numbers.
How about something from Master of Puppets? (Score:2)
How about something from Master of Puppets?
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Did anybody read past the first three words of that waste of space ?
Waste of space? Know what else is? Orion's Belt is a big waist of space!
OK, it's not funny. But you have to admit it's a three star joke.
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As an Indian, I welcome this. I am not against freeing up regulations on internet, however it is better to wait and watch what happens in USA than experiment on our now. Freeing regulations is way easier than allowing something and then bringing in regulations as merits of each side changes.
Congratulations India- you now live in a more technologically advanced State than the USA. The baton has been passed... India, Europe, China, you are now the first world of the post-internet era.
4 reelz? (Score:2)
California has posted to it's twitter feed that it's "supr jelly of Ndias new net regs... but we like tots got btr env regs n e way! [several unintelligible lines of emojis]" ;)
Prioritized over rights for women of course .... (Score:2)
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Women are still killing themselves over menstruation shame in this country .... net neutrality doesn't impress me in this situation.
Net neutrality can be accomplished with the stroke of a pen. Cultural changes, on the other hand, are much more difficult to implement.
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Perhaps in your fancy hotel. All I saw was bone crushing poverty.
On paper, poor record enforcing rules/laws (Score:1)
As strong as in Europe (Score:2)
I don't see on the first glance any difference to Europe.
Misleading statements (Score:2)
I know how the left hates Trump, and we all hate the big telecoms messing with the data streams we pay for. But, the Trump administration most definitely DID NOT repeal ANY federal laws EVER. Obama tried it, and many on the left wanted to buy into it, but we have a President, not a King. No one in the Trump administration, including Trump himself has the power to repeal any federal laws.
Do not let your TDS lead you to make ridiculous statements.