2014-08-03 22:22 GMT+02:00 Jens Best jens.best@wikimedia.de:
We as WMDE have not yet written a formal position on this special subject, but be assured that net neutrality is a very important subject for us.
As a German community member with no affiliation to the German chapter or indeed any other Wikimedia organisation I would like to add that net neutrality is indeed a rather important issue to anyone interested in the politics of the information economy in this country. I presume no one would tolerate a breach of net neutrality anywhere, and it is a bad sign if Wikimedia is associated with something like that in the first place.
However, there is a long-standing discussion on legally constituting libraries as a statutory basic public service in this country. So, the discussion on the introduction of library acts, or a Bibliotheksgesetz, in all German länder as well as on the Federal level would be the right way to address the issue of how to offer free access to information for everyone. I have a hunch that this might hold true for other countries, too. Wikipedia Zero seems to have been designed too much with a U.S. perspective in mind. That's why it is bound to fail in other parts of the world.
Regards, Jürgen.