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Facebook Shares 10 Key Facts about Free Basics. Here's What's Wrong with All 10 of Them.
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Dec 25, 2015
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last modified
Dec 25, 2015 02:59 PM
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filed under:
Net Neutrality,
Featured,
Facebook,
Internet Governance,
Homepage
Shweta Sengar of Catch News spoke to Sunil Abraham about the recent advertisement by Facebook titled "What Net Neutrality Activists won't Tell You or, the Top 10 Facts about Free Basics". Sunil argued against the validity of all the 'top 10 facts'.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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A Scam Masquerading as Santa
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 26, 2015
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
Christmas is here and social media is abuzz with celebrations of its spirit.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Second Regional Conference on Connectivity for All: Future Technologies, Markets and Regulation
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 27, 2015
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filed under:
Telecom,
Internet Governance
This conference organized by the International Telecommunications Society, IIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad was held in New Delhi from December 13 to 15, 2015. Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "Going beyond Cybersecurity: Internet Governance Issues".
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Telecom
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News & Media
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Facebook goes out all guns blazing in push for Free Basics, Net neutrality advocates cry foul
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 29, 2015
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filed under:
Social Media,
Free Basics,
Internet Governance
Facebook's media onslaught to garner support for its controversial Free Basics program is almost inescapable. Multi-page ads in national dailies, outdoor hoardings, television spots and perhaps the most effective of them all - Facebook notifications.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Benefits and Harms of "Big Data"
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by
Scott Mason
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published
Dec 30, 2015
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Big Data
Today the quantity of data being generated is expanding at an exponential rate. From smartphones and televisions, trains and airplanes, sensor-equipped buildings and even the infrastructures of our cities, data now streams constantly from almost every sector and function of daily life.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Mark Zuckerberg’s India backlash imperils vision for free global web
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 30, 2015
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Social Media,
Internet Governance
The growing backlash against Facebook’s Free Basics could threaten the very premise of Internet.org, Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to connect the planet.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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India’s net neutrality debate is unique and complex
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 30, 2015
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filed under:
Social Media,
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
Connectivity to millions in India is main issue
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News & Media
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Free Basics: Negating net parity
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Jan 03, 2016
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Net Neutrality,
Internet Governance
Researchers funded by Facebook were apparently told by 92 per cent of Indians they surveyed from large cities, with Internet connection and college degree, that the Internet “is a human right and that Free Basics can help bring Internet to all of India.” What a strange way to frame the question given that the Internet is not a human right in most jurisdictions.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Zuckerberg's India Backlash Imperils Free Global Web Vision
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 06, 2016
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filed under:
Free Basics,
Social Media,
Internet Governance
When Facebook's co-founder proposed bringing free Web services to India, his stated aim was to help connect millions of impoverished people to unlimited opportunity. Instead, critics have accused him of making a poorly disguised land grab in India's burgeoning Internet sector. The growing backlash could threaten the very premise of Internet.org, his ambitious, two-year-old effort to connect the planet.
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Internet Governance
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News & Media
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Nasscom against differential pricing for data services
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 06, 2016
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filed under:
Social Media,
Privacy,
Free Basics,
Internet Governance,
Freedom of Speech and Expression
The National Association of Software and Services Companies says it should be the regulator that decides on such content, not firms.
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