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BREAKING: Big win for Internet rights in India! The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India just announced a ban on discriminatory tariffs for data services -- meaning that the values of an open and equal Internet we've fought for in the U.S. will be upheld in India. This is a crucial decision that protects information access and tech innovation in India, and a blow for Facebook’s Free Basics program, which has been condemned as a form of “economic racism.”

In advance of the TRAI's decision, 18MR Media Justice Campaigner Mark Tseng Putterman and technologist and activist Anirvan Chatterjee penned this piece in The Aerogram on why we're invested in the fight for an open Internet in our homelands.

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