Social media trend report

Social media users unite to save the internet from inequality.

#netneutrality - This hashtag started trending, following the news that India’s new platform, Airtel Zero, was trying to offer its customers free access to select applications and services, while charging the firms who sign up with them. Their actions caused a social media storm in which users claimed that content should be equally accessible to all consumers and that service providers should not favour, block or limit access. As a result, #Savetheinternet started trending, which is an online petition to free the internet from inequality.

@ArvindKejriwal: “AAP is committed to neutral internet. India must debate #NetNeutrality. I support #Saveinternet campaign”

@ianuragthakur: “Happy to see the public discourse on #NetNeutrality, especially among the youth through social media. Important to debate and find consensus.” @saikatd: “#NetNeutrality is for free, equal markets, equal opportunities, new technologies, start ups. Those opposed to it are for cartelization.”

@PKGulati: “The fight for #NetNeutrality

is not over!”

@VishalDadlani: “Amazing! Power to the people! Stay vigilant, keep fighting.”

@bhogleharsha: “The internet is a symbol of an equal opportunity in society. It has levelled the world. It has to stay free and open. #Netneutrality”

@Riteishd: “#NetNeutrality is as important as Freedom of Speech. It is our basic right”

@Joydas: “Can we all, for once, forget all political, ideological differences and come together just to #SaveTheInternet and fight for #NetNeutrality”

@thekiranbedi: “Proud of what today’s technocrats are achieving for the country.” @PKGulati: “There are no sides in the #NetNeutrality debate!! Either it is, or it isn’t neutral. Stop letting vested interests make it divisive.”