<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">With factories, offices, public places, transportation, schools are colleges shut down, and no clear picture of whether normal life would resume in 4 weeks or 4 months, it is the Internet that could make life go on. While it is necessary to keep an eye on fake news and the dangers of fake news causing panic, it is equally important to keep the Internet open, perhaps even with directives to access providers NOT to disrupt connectivity to any user under any pretext together with a heightened awareness among Governments that everyone needs Internet, even to seek medical help, and more to preserve mass psychological well being.<br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"More Internet" here implies an approach that is on the other end of the tendency to lock down, it implies a greater willingness to keep more of the people of the world more connected, and to make news, educational, spiritual and entertainment content more available and also to think of more of curated streams for e.g, you tube recommendation, you tube curated streams, a better face book news stream etc... On the constructive / reconstruction front, Internet could bring together groups to collaborate on crisis management, economic reconstruction questions and could generate innovative ideas to solve problems.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is also a good time for Internet Radio to take shape in a big way.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sivasubramanian M</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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