[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Jens Best]

The discussion seems to be over:

According to the press Patricio Lorente, member of the Foundation's board,
said:

"Access to information is a basic human right. If net neutrality is hurting
a human right, we have to rethink net neutrality."

Haven't heard such a single-sided, unbalanced and self-righteous statment
for a while.

So, people standing for net neutrality are now became enemies of basic
human rights in the understanding of the foundation. - Well, if this low
level of discussion is reached, I guess it doesn't make sense to discuss
the subject with the foundation at all.

Byebye

Jens






2014-08-09 13:09 GMT+02:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:

> 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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