Is Zuckerberg’s Net Neutrality ploy a new East India Company?

Wikipedia states “Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication”. When a service provider, using software codes, deliberately favour’s content of a specific provider subsiding the content which is available on open Internet, is where the compromise on Net Neutrality occurs.

In a bid to pull maximum Internet traffic and provide a user with his required information, the large organisations are plying the concept of ‘Traffic shaping’, where-in they would control the accessibility of bandwidth which would prioritise there data deliberately, while compromising share of others.

From a layman’s perspective, one might appear to have least affect of its consequences and that one may never be able to identify the effects of such calibration. But in a long run he wouldn’t be spared from the ill effects as organisations might segregate the required data and would charge him for specific request creating a whirlpool of monopoly for specific industry leaders. For example, if a user desires data for flying from Mumbai to New York, companies may deliberately provide flying schedule for a particular airliner at a cost they demand, and would deprive user with other flying options which may be cheaper, if not the best. To sum up, the concept of ‘Rich becoming richer at the cost of poor’ may come in play if Net Neutrality is compromised with.

In Zuckerberg’s recent visit to India, he emphasised on controlling Internet for betterment of the user, which to some extent might be possible, but shall create a huge gap between ‘haves and have-nots’ creating a huge biased towards those with money and power. And if they are successful to get their bite, the people, or for that matter the whole country shall stand on the brink of digital slavery which would never ever be freed from. Hence, the government, in their bid to digitalise the nation, should not fall in trap of such cunning intentions of large corporations and must warrant stringent laws with heaviest capital and personal punishment against those who ditch them.

Save the Internet. 

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