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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/03/2014 03:17 PM, Dimitar
Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAK4vM4SDTsFwEm1Kg=uAp1WtrTxgDNv-eBOjUCQgnU7khqF3Lg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Unfortunately some of our worse fears are becoming
reality. Truth is, Wikimedia, due to its innner conflict in this
case has always been too weak and vulnerable to have an active
position on a red hot issue like net neutrality. We're torn
between the awareness that we thrive only because of an equal
internet and the logical wish to spread our awesome projects.</blockquote>
This is quite a telling paragraph. And I think it's at the heart of
the discussion.<br>
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If your choice is between an open and equal internet and a
successful Wikipedia, you must chose an open and equal internet.<br>
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After only a short 20 years with the internet as we know it, the
greatest risk is balkanisation. Please do not be so caught up in
Wikipedia's awesomeness (it is indeed awesome!) as to not see the
long term needs of humanity. With Facebook it's really easy to see
that they want Facebook Zero for world domination. You're admitting
here that this too is the reason that Wikipedia Zero should exist.<br>
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Wikipedia has been hugely successful because of the conditions of an
open internet. Closing that down, violating net neutrality, creating
precedent for select free services means that there can never be
another brave invention like Wikipedia.<br>
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-Mallory<br>
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