[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Thomas Lohninger]

Could somebody please post a link/scan of Patricios original statement in question?

Best,
Thomas

> On 10.08.2014, at 19:38, Christophe Henner <christophe.henner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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