On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
Kim Bruning <kim@...> writes:
Washington post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-comp...
The response to this is embarrassing and lacking. Wikipedia Zero is an amazing program (and is one of the only excellent non-engineering things the foundation has done). Providing free access to Wikipedia doesn't violate the concept of net neutrality. Access to Wikimedia is being subsidized by the mobile companies. Access to other sources of information isn't being slowed. There's no extra charge to access other sources of information.
My biggest wonder here is: why in the world is the HR director for the foundation speaking with the press about this on behalf of the foundation (and the movement)? This seems like the kind of thing the communications department, or the ED (or DD) should be doing.
i find this article very good. and also gale gives a quite balanced and reasonable statement. ryan, the sentence from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality is: "... should treat all data on the Internet equally..." if you could elaborate a little how paying for one source, and not paying for another is "equal"?
rupert