[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Lila Tretikov]

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.

L
On Aug 4, 2014 1:29 PM, "Juergen Fenn" <schneeschmelze at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> 2014-08-03 22:22 GMT+02:00 Jens Best <jens.best at 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.
>
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