[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero specifically excepted from ban of zero-rating services in Chile

[Cristian Consonni]

2014-09-23 5:15 GMT+02:00 Jens Best <jens.best at wikimedia.de>:
> So, therefore, it has too be said again: Wikipedia Zero is used by mobile
> providers and its lobbyists to establish an unequal usage of different data,
> in consequence getting people used to violate net neutrality on a regular
> base.

Is there some kind of document or statement from "lobbysts" using
Wikipedia Zero as an example in their arguments?

> Even if the foundation now found a so called net neutrality advocate which
> is willing to trade the principle for whatever reason, the global gathering
> (IGF) in Istanbul showed that NGO representatives from USA, Europe and the
> “Global South“ are strongly worried about the fact that Wikipedia Zero is a
> breaker of the net neutrality principle (and some foundation representatives
> strictly ignoring that fact).
> Member of a “Global South“ initiative called Wikipedia Zero and the way it
> brings “the internet“ to the poor plainly patronizing. They put Wikipedia in
> the same category with Facebook and other US-american Websites which hide
> their marketing tricks behind nice PR-wordings.

Is there some kind of document of statement from about this?

C