When you run something as large as the savetheinternet.in campaign for Net Neutrality, with hundreds of volunteers — some named, some not — and have thousands of conversations, negotiations, disagreements and debates, no one really has the complete picture: not even the people who ran it.
This blog is an unusual one. We will put together our memories from this once-in-a-lifetime experience, one blog post at a time. In a way, we will blog history as we remember it, from our own perspective.
10 years after the campaign, it remains a blurry memory for some of us. Some things have been forgotten. In some cases each of us remembers a particular instance differently. Some memories have been revised. One purpose of this blog is remind ourselves of all the work we did. Another is to correct the record in our own heads.
The Wikipedia page for SaveTheInternet.in, which was the largest grassroots digital rights campaign in the history of India, was removed for not being noteworthy. We had a little saying during the campaign — Our turf, our rules.
So, we’re creating our own archive.
There is no scope of this being a comprehensive documentation of the campaign, but we’ll try our best.