[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Jens Best]

"Net neutrality is about fast/slow Lane. WP0 is about a free Lane." -
Sounds like straight from the Marketing/PR-Department.

And this oversimplification is also wrong in the underlying "argument" -
which obviously should be "WP0 and net neutrality are two totally different
things" (<- that was my original bet with what the PR of the Foundation
would come up with. Who could have thought of "net neutrality people are
against human rights".) It is just brazen how the Foundation dealt with
this matter.




2014-08-10 20:38 GMT+02:00 Christophe Henner <christophe.henner at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Patricio comment was more complete than that.
>
> Net neutrality is about fast/slow Lane. WP0 is about a free Lane. Bis
> argument was pretty sensible.
>
> I'm not sure why we should fear a free  Lane. The worst it does is
> providing free access, not a better QOS or a filtered/unfiltered access to
> the Internet.
>
> N'est,
>
> Christophe
> Le 10 août 2014 18:00, "Anirudh S. Bhati" <anirudhsbh at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Jens Best <jens.best at wikimedia.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> ​
>> Last I checked, "self-righteous" could be used to describe the advocacy
>> of a one-size-fits-all solution implemented in an absolutist fashion
>> without regard to the rights and interests of those who would be most
>> affected by it, i.e. the owners of private property.
>>
>> You like "net neutrality"?  Go buy your Internet access from a company
>> that promises to adhere to those principles.  Or better yet, raise some
>> money and start your own infra and ISP business.  Don't force others to
>> play by your rules - that would be self-righteous.
>>
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