[Wikimedia-l] Internet.org and Wikipedia Zero ?

[David Gerard]

On 23 August 2013 10:28, Jens Best <jens.best at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> I would suggest to keep distance to this wannabe-NGO which more or less
> only exists to serve the interests of commercial players which mostly do *
> not* stand for a free and open web.
> internet.org is nothing what will serve the ideas and ideals of an internet
> as it is represented also by Wikimedia. Don't believe the hype.


I concur. Dig this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/08/what-internetorgs-stirring-video-cut-from-the-kennedy-speech-it-quotes/278896/

Whatever these people are doing doesn't actually appear to be much to
do with what we're doing.


- d.