In Mexico Virgin Mobile is offering since December 11 this service and of course Wikipedia is announced as a part of the offer. With an intentional way, in my opinion, because although our free licenses that allow reuse of the Wikipedia contents, communication of this criticized service seems to be an alliance that take advantage of the moral quality of Wikipedia to attract confidence.
There are few voices[1] that point how Free Basics is an enemy of freedom of internet as Electronic Frontier Foundation [2], Mexican NGO Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales [3], Chilean NGO Derechos Digitales [4] among others.
Will be nice if we can start the discussion as community and movement and take action. I don't know if WMF have something in plans about Free Basics.
Regards,
[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/accessnoworg/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg-r... [2] https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2015/09/facebooks-free-basics-more-open-bet... [3] https://r3d.mx/2015/12/15/facebook-da-internet-gratis-demasiado-bueno-para-s... [4] https://www.derechosdigitales.org/9585/free-basics-expands-in-latin-america-...
2015-12-30 19:49 GMT-06:00 Tito Dutta trulytito@gmail.com:
Free Basics campaign is both confusing and misleading, They are posting ads around India "What net neutrality activists won’t tell you” etc. There are a number of good articles on the web. This one is one of my favourite:
http://www.catchnews.com/tech-news/should-facebook-become-internet-s-gatekee... I don't know anyone who supported it with its understanding. On the other hand a large number of my friends who signed this Facebook petition (I have talked to many of them) supported it without having any idea what they are supporting, In my opinion that's the worst part.
On 31 December 2015 at 06:56, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Today I've learned about it. And I think WMF is the perfect prey for such initiative.
I hope nobody sane is taking that seriously. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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