It's fine (and necessary) to hold ourselves to our own ethical standards, but if we start trying to avoid activity that might be perceived as illegal in any country, we would run in to a lot of problems awfully fast. Trying to avoid activity that might be perceived as illegal somewhere in the world would result in Wikipedia being quite thoroughly censored and rather useless. I like Wikipedia Zero and don't see a problem with it, but if we do want to have a debate about whether or not it's a morally acceptable project, it should at least be framed as 'does this project violate the Wikimedia movement's principles?' and not 'does this project violate the law in any country in the world?'
---- Kevin Gorman On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>