Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Net neutrality and internet.org

Now a day there is advertisement of Internet.org being shown on many TV channels. This website internet.org is only available to Reliance Communication customers because Reliance Communication is sharing its revenue with Internet.org to make premium content of Internet.org available to its customers. Till now the websites which used to think that they have premium content used to charge membership fee directly to users and take payments through credit card. There are many restrictions on payments made by credit cards. Payment from Indian credit card cannot be made to any website providing pornographic contents. But now these websites will be charging for the content through internet service providers which will be untraceable.

Will government put a restriction on internet service providers on with which company they can tie up and share their revenue? How will government make sure that internet service providers will not tie up with pornographic content providers and distributing pornographic content to their user for a higher charge? It will lead to valuable foreign exchange going out of India. Why do we allow pornographic content to be distributed by internet service providers for a fee freely and at the same time arrest people who are selling pornographic CDs? The law should be same for everyone, if the law prohibit sale of pornographic content then government should also not allow sale of pornographic content by internet service providers and sharing their revenue with producer of pornographic content.