[Wikimedia-l] is wikipedia zero illegal because it violates net neutrality?

Stephen Bain stephen.bain at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 16:05:56 UTC 2013


To the best of my knowledge, every jurisdiction that has legislated on net
neutrality has concentrated on preventing ISPs from blocking, degrading or
charging extra for particular services; not one of them has a problem with
providers giving away certain data for free.

S
On 26 Aug 2013 04:51, "rupert THURNER" <rupert.thurner at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> most people know some advantage of wikipedia zero and everybody can
> look up the advantages by just typing wikipedia zero into some search
> engine. as i am not sure about the answer and anyway get asked in rare
> cases what i think of wp:zero i guess it should be best answered on
> the mailing list:
>
> is wikipedia zero illegal in some countries because it violates net
> neutrality? and if it is illegal or borderline according to, say,
> netherlands, swiss, or german law, is it appropriate to do it in
> countries where the law is less developed? or should wikimedia
> foundation apply a higher moral standard and just abstain from any
> activity which might be perceived as illegal somewhere?
>
> just for the ones not so sure about net neutrality [1]:
> Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on
> the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by
> user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached
> equipment, and modes of communication.
>
> [1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
>
> rupert.
>
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