Net Neutrality isn’t that simple, critics fear manipulation
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With stand up comedians, politicians, actors and notable personalities voicing out their support for net neutrality, thus ensuring Internet remain free and democratic all across the Web, the issue of An Indian telecom operator’s introduction of
Telecom companies can easily create access barriers, keep competition out, give unfair advantage to established Internet businesses and harm both innovation and consumer welfare. Technology entrepreneurs ET spoke to were unanimous in their view that keeping Internet free was crucial for both consumers and business.
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The ET elaborates, Google search and Google's email service, Gmail, wouldn't today be the consumer-friendly, super-efficient global winners had Internet run on the idea that first movers will enjoy special access. Google's search service was preceded by
And thanks to net neutrality, even Google lost its Orkut, which was in play long before
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Indiatimes.com (a venture from BCCL, which owns this newspaper) was an early mover in the eCommerce game. But because net is neutral, a startup like Flipkart could emerge as the winner and today, Flipkart has to keep in mind where the next eCommerce winner will come from.
Everyone's favourite Internet fact provider and fact checker, Wikipedia, would have not taken off as free, open sourced content had the long-established and pay-for-use Encyclopedia been able to privilege itself on the net. India's thriving second hand goods online marketplaces, Quikr, OLX, needed a neutral net. Had the quality of their sites been affected by special access given to established, bigger players, consumers wouldn't have wasted time testing these new marketplaces, the financial daily concludes.
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