[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Jens Best]

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.

Jens


2014-08-03 22:09 GMT+02:00 effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>:

> resending, as it seems this message never arrived.
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> 2014-08-02 10:37 GMT+02:00 Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>:
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>> Hi Jens,
>> Just out of curiosity for clarification, given your Praesidium signature:
>> are you engaging this discussion strongly from your personal interest, or
>> did WMDE create a position on this issue be it formally or not?
>>
>> Thanks, lodewijk
>> On Aug 2, 2014 1:34 AM, "Jens Best" <jens.best at wikimedia.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Well,
>>>
>>> my first repsonse to Erics text:
>>>
>>> a lot of words, a lot of "believing in this & that", some emotional
>>> storytelling - but nothing on the simple fact that any zero-rating is a
>>> clear violation of net neutrality.
>>>
>>> So, is this supposed to be the opening of a discussion? For me this text
>>> doesn't sound like that any discussion with an open result is possible or
>>> even welcomed.
>>>
>>> This text is in clear contradiction to the recent statement of EFF. So
>>> is the Foundation willingly trying to violate one of the basic principles
>>> of an open web just to be part of the Facebook Zero, Google Zero, Coke Zero
>>> - Group? Is the foundation really that naive to not see that this way it
>>> becomes part of the marketing machine of access providers to deteriorate
>>> user habits?
>>>
>>> So, as a net neutrality advocate somebody has to ask him-/herself if
>>> he/she really wants to participate in a discussion which result is already
>>> determined. What is EFF saying to this clear violation of net neutrality by
>>> WMF?
>>>
>>> best regards
>>>
>>> Jens Best
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-08-02 0:48 GMT+02:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder at wikimedia.org>:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to follow up on the discussion on Wikipedia Zero and net
>>>> neutrality on this list. We just posted a discussion on this topic:
>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Yana
>>>>
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