Hello everyone. I don't actually have a solution, although I am thinking about it a lot. But for anyone who is in doubt about the potential difficulties that net neutrality faces because of Wikipedia Zero, I recommend they take a look at this blog. It is written from what I consider the "critical friend" perspective and articulates the arguments of Jens and others very clearly.
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/08/08/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-...
It also reflects my own view pretty well. I hope we can have a calm and reasoned discussion about this issue this evening at the net politics beer.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
On 5 August 2014 07:08, Juergen Fenn schneeschmelze@googlemail.com wrote:
2014-08-05 2:54 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov lila@wikimedia.org:
We tend to go out pontificating on these lists. What would be helpful is solutioning. For net neutrality, how would you reconcile the need for
free
public access to information with the ideals of net neutrality? This is
the
library analogy. We believe libraries should exist in this new digital world. Do you advise that they cannot? And if they can, how should we articulate this better?
Go ahead and take a stab at it.
The solution probably is to go and partner with the libraries instead of the ISPs. Leave it to the libraries which ISP they choose. It is up to the libraries to provide access to resources for their users. They select the resources they provide and they mind the technical side behind it all. This is not the WMF's business. You only run the WP website and care about the community.
Regards, Jürgen.
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