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Abstract

The web worldwide uploads sui generis issues for net savvy citizens (“netizens” in the trendy sense of the term) to grapple with corporate interest operative from within the system of cyber governance. At times, savage takes place under the (dis) guise of ideology as well. One such epic struggle surfaces itself through polemics between digital equality and net neutrality, a feud that constitutes the crux of this effort, to put its consumers to crossroads. A quest thereby stands tested with jurisprudent reasoning; whether and how far internet browser may be construed as “consumer” under the given legal regime. The author engages in this quest, in the Indian context, to plead with an argument of his own that naive browser as new entrant deserves parental coverage of the law. Besides, the author has identified fault-lines in ideological positioning and thereby demonstrated mutual criss-crosses between classical left-wing and right-wing politics inter se; no less contentious for otherwise veteran readership. Irrespective of his political positioning, however, the consumer is put to peril anyway. While digital equality falls short to offer freedom of access, net neutrality has had no package to offer even access to net. Nowadays equality plays for right-wing politics and liberty does the same for left-wing politics. At the bottom, both of them appear great grandeurs since the requiem for naive consumer, crucified by either ideology, falls on deaf ear. Irrespective of polemics (read politics), ideology appears savage for the naive netizenry and saviour for the rest. Isolated and unorganized, often than not consumer falls prey to pitfalls arranged by organized and collusive goods producer or/ and service provider

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