&gt;&gt; NetNeutrality is a concept that makes sense in a western context where carriers are basically monopolies.<p>This to me sounds like Winston Churchill saying Indians don&#x27;t deserve democracy as those are the luxuries of rich white populated western countries.<p>&gt;&gt;It&#x27;s unbelievable how good arguments in one context, have been blindly applied to a completely unrelated context.<p>People rights are the same. We here in India are humans too.<p>&gt;&gt;Free markets are dead. Regulation driven by manufactured outrage or vested interests manufacturing outrage are alive and thriving.<p>Whole point of these protests was to keep the ecosystem for a free market alive.<p>&gt;&gt; If Christian missionaries or Hindu missions go and setup schools and libraries for free in Rural India is someone protesting differential pricing in Urban India. It&#x27;s ridiculous.<p>India has a thriving debate on keeping religion out of schools.<p>&gt;&gt;The people who loose out are the farmer\weaver who just need an email address to be linked to the cities. Who is going to provide that now? Rural India is so vast and voiceless that they are the automatic loosers in such a debate.<p>You completely under estimate internet penetration in India. Nearly every body who needs it, already has access to basics. Those who don&#x27;t, have bigger issues than liking somebody&#x27;s Facebook status.<p>Those people eating rotis made from wild grass in bundelkhand have bigger issues. Their issues have more to do with irrigation infrastructure and other larger systemic issues in India in general(not the right time to discuss these issues in this thread). Not facebook or email.