On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Denny Vrandečić < denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de> wrote:
2013/8/27 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com
Denny Vrandečić, 27/08/2013 11:39:
That's like saying
"printing out an article of Wikipedia and giving it to a student is a violation of net neutrality because we didn't print out the rest of the Web and gave it to them too".
This analogy doesn't work very well because the "we" here is most likely not an ISP and it's only ISP being subject to net neutrality.
Nemo
Exactly. Neither is Wikipedia Zero an ISP, which is why the analogy does work. :)
Denny
I'm rather amazed that I'm the one being called out by George Herbert for making "excessively legalistic rather than factually or morally based" remarks (which I find odd, and rather insulting at that. I don't think I made a legalistic argument anywhere, and indeed, law tends to be the last thing I consider in where we should stand on ethical issues). I find this reasoning to be rule lawyering. We're not the ISP violating net neutrality, no. It's the ISP's we actively work together with and strongly encourage.
I now find myself in the somewhat uncomfortable position where I defend the position where I say that this isn't a black and white issue, and net neutrality does play a role, which makes it appear as if I think we are doing horrible, horrible things to the world by providing Wikipedia Zero. For clarity, that is not at all how I feel about the issue.
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