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

[Andre Engels]

Dutch telecommunication law, article 7.4a (the net neutrality article),
paragraph 3:

"Aanbieders van internettoegangsdiensten stellen de hoogte van tarieven
voor internettoegangsdiensten niet afhankelijk van de diensten en
toepassingen die via deze diensten worden aangeboden of gebruikt."

"Offerers of internet access services do not make the tariffs for internet
access services dependent on the services and applications that are offered
or used via these services."

If an isp offers Wikipedia for free, and some other internet usage not,
then it has a different tariff dependent on the service that is offered.



On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com