Comment by throwawaykf05
10 years ago
1) This was in response to firasd's alarmist argument about ISPs charging differently based on what sites you access, not the Internet.org thing.
2) There are free VPNs out there. I am not sure how trustworthy they are, but people I know have been using them for ages.
The current campaign in which Facebook v.s. net neutrality activists are asking people to write in to TRAI (and the other stages of this campaign over the last year) is about exactly what I described. The regulator's consultation paper is not specifically about internet.org, it's about differential pricing in general. Like I said, before the activism, ISPs were already declaring they'd charge extra for messaging and VOIP, so it's not 'alarmist', it's planned and declared.
Free VPNs do not mean that ISP's won't charge you for the data.