TRAI ruled today in favour of net neutrality, and prohibited discriminatory tariffs for data services on the basis of content. What are the implications of this for Facebook's Free Basics? Free data to some extent is allowed only as long as it is website agnostic. So in effect it strikes down what Free Basics is offering. The exception to net neutrality that TRAI has spelt out is that it will not apply to intranets or closed electronic communication networks.