manjunath455 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 Facebook said Monday it was opening up Internet.org, which provides connectivity to people in developing nations, to outside applications following a controversy over its limited set of online services. On April 15, The Times of India Group, which has been spearheading the movement for net-neutrality in India, had appealed to all publishers to jointly withdraw from Internet.org. The group had stated that its properties like TimesJobs and Maharashtra Times, whose competitors are not on zero-rate platforms, would pull out of Internet.org. As for the Times of India itself, the group commited to withdraw from Internet.org if its direct competitors — including India Today, IBNLive and BBC — also pulled out. The group also encouraged its fellow language and English news publishers — Dainik Jagran, Aaj Tak, Amar Ujala, Maalai Malar, Reuters, and Cricinfo — to join the campaign for net neutrality and withdraw from zero rate schemes. NDTV, Newshunt and Cleartrip had also announced that they were withdrawing from Internet.org on the same day.
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