[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality

[Jens Best]

Hi Eric

I re-watched it, too. I'm on road now, so I will answer later in detail why
it is still insulting and why the misleading and plain wrong use of
“slow/fast lane“ and an ellegibly “wider concept of net neutrality“ is -
unconsciously or consciously - misleading.

Jens
Am 12.08.2014 19:30 schrieb "Erik Moeller" <erik at wikimedia.org>:

> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:32 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."
>
> Dear Jens,
>
> This is not what Patricio said. Thanks to him for linking to the
> relevant segment of the video. Here is a full transcript:
>
> "In the last couple of weeks, it's [sic] been some debate about
> Wikipedia Zero and whether it conflicts with the concept of net
> neutrality .. and .. my opinion is that net neutrality refers
> specifically or mostly to the fact that some services or some ..
> certain companies are trying to pay to use what is called the fast
> lane, lanes of the Internet. If there are fast lanes, there are also
> slow lanes, and that's not the Internet we want, we completely reject
> that possibility. In this sense, we completely support the concept of
> net neutrality. But when going to Wikipedia Zero, we are not going ..
> we are not talking about fast or slow, we are talking about people who
> is outside the road(?) at all .. so what we are trying, is to give
> them access to a basic human right, which is access to information and
> knowledge. And .. I know some people don't agree with this opinion
> because they have a wider notion of net neutrality. And, I'm sorry,
> but my opinion is quite different. If our concept of net neutrality
> prevents us to secure human rights then we should revise the concept
> of net neutrality."
>
> This makes it clear that:
>
> - Patricio's opinion as expressed was clearly nuanced, and explicitly
> acknowledged that reasonable people can disagree on the matter. In
> turn I have a hard time seeing how a reasonable person would be
> offended by how it was stated. If you're going mostly off the heise.de
> report, though, please make sure you read the full statement above or
> watch the video Patricio linked to.
>
> - The heise.de news article misquoted Patricio, since in context it is
> clear that he strongly supported a basic principle of net neutrality,
> but not necessarily an expanded notion that may conflict with
> right-to-knowledge objectives. The words "our concept of" are pretty
> important to the meaning of what he said and were omitted in
> translation, alongside the full context of his statement.
>
> Sincerely,
> Erik
>
> --
> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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