Karthik,

Thanks for starting this discussion.

We may not have enough time or consensus or precedence to launch India
specific official / community led campaign regarding this by April 24th.

But, net neutrality debates are happening all over the globe and it will be
good for the global Wikimedia community to take an official stand on this.
One can recollect how the stand  taken by Flipkart and ClearTrip shaped the
recent debate in India.

Though Wikipedia Zero was welcomed widely during its launch and expansion,
it has become "the elephant in the room" for any Wikipedian talking about
net neutrality.  I don't recollect any community discussion / consensus
over this program apart from the blog post here by WMF -

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/

Presence of Wikipedia in Internet.org like programs also needs to be
explained.

A RFC in Meta discussing this as a global issue would be a good start .

Ravi

P.S.

This is my personal opinion written from my personal email id. Not to be
taken as official view of any community or organization that I am
affiliated with.
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