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

Denny Vrandečić denny.vrandecic at wikimedia.de
Tue Aug 27 11:32:45 UTC 2013


2013/8/27 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>

> Denny Vrandečić, 27/08/2013 11:39:
>
>  That's like saying
>> "printing out an article of Wikipedia and giving it to a student is a
>> violation of net neutrality because we didn't print out the rest of the
>> Web
>> and gave it to them too".
>>
>
> This analogy doesn't work very well because the "we" here is most likely
> not an ISP and it's only ISP being subject to net neutrality.
>
> Nemo
>

Exactly. Neither is Wikipedia Zero an ISP, which is why the analogy does
work. :)

Denny


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