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13 Apr 2015

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British Broadcasting Corporation

Why "Save the Internet" is trending in India

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India's biggest online retailers are now starting to respond to the anger of hundreds of thousands of Indians who have emailed the government in the past 72 hours, in defence of their right to access all websites equally...It all started with a sketch being posted on YouTube, which as well as being funny was also video is a staunch defence of the idea of net neutrality...The result? More than 1.5m views in three days, the hashtag #savetheinternet hitting the list of Twitter's top trends and a flood of emails to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)...Crucially, the video includes a link to a website, savetheinternet.in, which gives users an easy way to email TRAI with a contribution to the consultation - and the people behind the campaign estimate that at least 200,000 emails have been sent.

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