Digital India can’t be euphemism for filtered data: Rahul Gandhi

Insisting that the Congress has always stood for ‘Freedom of the Internet’ and ‘Net Neutrality’, the party’s vice president said the party wanted that Internet Service Providers (ISPs)/Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) and government should treat all data on Internet equally. 

“NASSCOM has asked for Net Neutrality, over 500 start-up entrepreneurs are pleading for it, young in India have been demanding it, yet we have a government, which under the pretext of repeated discussions, has been delaying framing a clearcut policy on this”, Gandhi, who has spoken on the issue in Parliament, said attacking the government. He charged that the BJP government “quietly looked the other way” when Telecom companies introduced price differential through zero rating plans and attempts to charge for OTT (Over The Top) services.