[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Jens Best]

Patrício is quoted as “he said at Wikimania conference“. The journalist who
has written the article is known for his accuracy.

Link:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikimania-Die-Wikipedia-als-soziale-Maschine-2289614.html
- last passage.
Am 10.08.2014 22:01 schrieb "Thomas Lohninger" <
thomas.lohninger at netzfreiheit.org>:

> 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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