Social media giant Facebook has said it's important to get the debate on Net neutrality ‘right’ in India as the country is home to the world's largest population of the ‘unconnected’. The US-based company faced severe criticism over alleged violation of Net neutrality by Internet.Org even as Facebook has continued to defend the initiative that offers free access to basic Internet services to consumers.
India has over 8 lakh users under the Internet.Org initiative. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said the regulatory framework needs to protect Net neutrality for consumers and also ensure that companies are allowed to work on new models for stepping up Internet access. “There is this big struggle, debate in India now on how you balance these two things and this is an incredibly important debate.”
