OUT OF CONTEXT

Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

1. Internet service providers (ISPs) will be prohibited from practices such as blocking content, degrading speeds, slowing specific content, or granting differential speeds or treatment, as a consequence of this acceptance.

2. The Telecom Commission’s acceptance of net neutrality rules will have far-reaching implications for the future of the internet in India.

3. The internet has essentially been net neutral for over two decades, and there has been plenty of visible innovation.

4. A net-neutral regime will allow smaller businesses and individuals to create and disseminate content without the fear of their offerings being swamped by larger competitors.

5. In that sense, net neutrality will help to promote innovation across the entire digital ecosystem.

 

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38 comments

  1. Vartika Srivastava

    3
    As all other options tell about the effects of net neutrality in the future.
    While 3rd one tells about the already seen benefits of net neutrality

    1. TG.Prabhat

      Thanks for sharing your approach, Vartika.
      I’ll confirm your answer after posting the solution tomorrow. 🙂

  2. Ans. 3rd statement
    All other statements talk about the impact of net neutrality

  3. The odd sentence is 3 Because all other sentences talk about the forthcoming implications of net neutrality meaning there was no net neutrality earlier.But sentence 3 talks about an already existing regime where net neutrality is present.

  4. Mayank Khanna

    3 is odd
    Reason
    All other talk about net neutrality and line of thinking is about impact of net neutrality. Be it what it does and how India accept it.
    3 on contrary talks about not having net neutrality as it means that internet is already neutral which is not very much in line.

  5. TG.Prabhat

    Explanation:

    The answer is sentence 3. All the other sentences explicitly mention net neutrality, or list its future implications. Sentence 3 is a comment on how the internet scenario has been in the past.

    1. Hi Sir, I got option 1 as my answer. My reason being that all other talks about the benefits of the Net Neutrality and how it will bring innovation or has helped businesses. But option 1 is a general statement. Is this reasoning incorrect?

      1. TG.Prabhat

        Even if one considers sentence 1 to contain only benefits, sentence 2 clearly does not fit that theme, Richa. It does not mention any benefits of net neutrality.

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