[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Stevie Benton]

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-wikimedia-turns-its-back-on-the-open

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 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2014-08-05 2:54 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov <lila at 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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