Hi Marc, zero-rating a special service or a certain website on you mobile contract is a clever way to undermine net neutrality, even when it comes as such a noble service to give free knowledge to the people.
Free knowledge of the leading global encyclopedia is surely connected with a totally different approach as, let's say, a certain music-streaming website which is included zero-rated in a mobile contract, but nethertheless it is way to undermine/break net neutrality. A noble cause doesn't necessarily make breaking an important principle unproblematic. There is already a discussion in the community about the prospective complex of problems with zero-rating as an icebreaker for introducing different price tags on data. It could be the time to start talking globally about an in-the-future exit strategy on the surely noble initiative e.g. when certain milestones are reached in participating countries/regions. best regards Jens Best 2014-05-29 23:02 GMT+02:00 Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org>: > On 05/29/2014 04:55 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: > > another sad day, wikimedia foundation as the vicarious servant of the > > telecom industry on its way destroying net neutrality. > > I would *really* like to hear your reasoning on this, given that there > is absolutely nothing that prevents any telco provider from zero-rating > Wikipedia. Net neutrality doesn't even enter into it. > > What *does* enter into it, however, is that literally /millions/ more > people now have free access to Wikipedia that could not before afford it. > > -- Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- -- Jens Best Präsidium Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. web: http://www.wikimedia.de mail: jens.best <http://goog_17221883>@wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
