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

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 12:52:14 UTC 2013


Denny Vrandečić, 27/08/2013 13:32:
> Exactly. Neither is Wikipedia Zero an ISP, which is why the analogy does
> work. :)

Sure, but ISP conducting Wikipedia Zero programs are. :) WMF is just 
facilitating the activities being speculated about as potentially 
illegal in some countries, I don't think anyone here suggested that WMF 
is breaching the law.

The whole thread is rather speculative of course; perhaps an analogous 
question would be whether it would be appropriate for a WMF grant to 
fund an activity e.g. in France which would be illegal in Germany. WMF 
did and does force (some) entities in other countries to follow (some?) 
USA laws, out of moral or legal reasons.
All this just to say that the question of the original poster should not 
be considered an attack...

Nemo



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