Nikhil Pahwa

Nikhil Pahwa
Nikhil Pahwa at Asia Liberty Forum 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Born23 February 1981
CitizenshipIndian
Occupation(s)Journalist and Activist

Nikhil Pahwa (born 23 February 1981) is an Indian journalist, digital rights activist, and founder of MediaNama, a mobile and digital news portal.[1] He has been a key commentator on stories and debates around Indian digital media companies, censorship and Internet and mobile regulation in India.

He is the founder of 'Save the Internet' that was instrumental in successfully opposing Facebook's Free Basics programme in India on the basis that it limited competition and violated net neutrality.[2][3][4] Pahwa, along with some volunteers of 'Save the Internet' co-founded the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2016 and resigned in 2018.[5] Pahwa was earlier the editor of ContentSutra, which was acquired by the Guardian Media Group.[6] He was named one of India Today Magazine's "Indians of Tomorrow" in 2012,[7] a TED fellow in 2016,[8] and an Asia21 Young Leader in 2019.[9]

MediaNama

After working at ContentSutra for two years, Nikhil Pahwa founded MediaNama on 27 June 2008.[6] The portal provides news and analysis of the digital and telecom businesses of India.[10] It also monitors the digital policies set by the government of India.[11]

Activism

When the Indian government invited comments on net neutrality in 2014, Nikhil Pahwa was a notable activist in the debate which helped the government reach a decision in favour of net neutrality.[12] Later that year, when Facebook announced its plans of launching a service to provide free Internet access to selected sites and apps on the Internet, Pahwa was one of its most vocal critics and, being a "respected voice in the field", he was invited for a discussion with Facebook executives. In 2015, after Facebook nevertheless launched its Free Basics programme in partnership with Reliance Mobile, a major telecom company, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) invited public comments on a ruling on net neutrality. Pahwa believed this to be a worrying development as TRAI's judgements tended to come down on the side of the phone companies. He believed that only a grassroots campaign would save net neutrality and contacted coders, lawyers, and policy wonks to form a movement dubbed, Save the Internet. A website, savetheinternet.in, was launched on 11 April which allowed visitors to easily make submissions to TRAI with their answers to the 20 questions posed by TRAI on net neutrality. The movement took off when a video by the comedy group, All India Bakchod, explaining net neutrality to the viewer directed the public to make their submissions via savetheinternet.in. By 24 April, 1.1 million Indians had e-mailed the regulator not to license or sanction plans such as Free Basics that violated net neutrality.[4][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Venugopal, Vasudha (6 June 2013). "File-sharing site blocking flags up internet freedom". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. ^ Burgess, Matt. "A real-life David and Goliath: the Indian 'web warrior' who took on Facebook and won". Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  3. ^ Helft, Miguel. "Meet The Man Who Derailed Facebook's Plan To Provide Free Internet In India". Forbes.
  4. ^ a b Bhatia, Rahul (12 May 2016). "The inside story of Facebook's biggest setback | Rahul Bhatia". The Guardian.
  5. ^ "About the Internet Freedom Foundation". Internet Freedom Foundation. 4 June 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  6. ^ a b Schonfeld, Eric (5 October 2008). "Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian". TechCrunch. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Indians of Tomorrow". India Today. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Meet the 2016 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows". TED Blog. 8 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Class of 2019". Asia Society. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  10. ^ "About Medianama". www.medianama.com. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  11. ^ Smartt, Ursula (2017). Media & Entertainment Law. Taylor & Francis. p. 109. ISBN 9781317334613.
  12. ^ Mahurkar, Uday (2017). Marching with a Billion: Analysing Narendra Modi's Government at Midterm. Random House Publishers India Pvt. Limited. p. 69. ISBN 9789386495846.
  13. ^ Soni, Aayush (25 May 2015). "How people power took on big business in the fight for net neutrality in India". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

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