[Advocacy Advisors] Wikipedia Zero specifically excepted from ban of zero-rating services in Chile

Mon Sep 22 20:55:21 UTC 2014

Well,

one special exception in one country doesn't put away the fact that
Wikipedia Zero is damaging the struggle to keep net neutrality an basic
principle around the world.

Wikipedia Zero is undermining globally the activities of NGOs, activists
and other entities against commercial and some governmental interests which
would like to weaken/destroy net neutrality.

Wikipedia Zero is an argument against net neutrality in the hands of its
enemies. With Wikipedia Zero the foundation is endangering its position in
the digital civil rights movement as seen at the IGF in Istanbul recently.

Without any globally shared meta concept Wikipedia Zero stays to be a
welcomed marketing trick for mobile providers.

Jens
Am 22.09.2014 22:39 schrieb "Cristian Consonni" <kikkocristian at gmail.com>:

> (probably this can be commented by more qualified people than myself)
>
> TL;DR
> Chile's government (Subsecretaria de Telecomunicaciones, SUBTEL) has
> issued a circular (i.e. an explanation of the law), called circular n.
> 40[1], earlier in April this year stating that zero-rating go against
> the Chilean net neutrality law in force (spec. disposition n. 6 and 7.
> of law n. 18.168)[*]. Today  SUBTEL has "confirmed to us [WMF and
> Wikimedia Chile] that the new order was not intended to prevent
> Wikipedia Zero and similar free knowledge initiatives"
>
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/22/chilean-regulator-welcomes-wikipedia-zero/#cite_ref-1
>
> Well, in one word this is, for sure, "a thing".
>
> Cristian
>
> [1]
> http://www.subtel.gob.cl/transparencia/Perfiles/Transparencia20285/Normativas/Oficios/14oc_0040.pdf
> [*] {{es}} (end of page 1) "La estructura de la oferta en comento,
> importan a juicio de esta autoridad una contravención a las normas que
> en la especie regulan y prohiben conductas discriminatorias de
> contenidos, aplicaciones o servicios, que integran el principio de
> Neutralidad de Red contenidas en la normativa sectorial, y en
> particular al texto del articulo 24o H letra a) de la Ley [dispuesto
> 6o y 7o de la Ley no. 18,168]"
> {{en}} "The structure of the offers under scrutiny, imply to the
> judjement of this authority an infringement of the norms ... which
> regulate and prohibit conduct of discrimination of contents,
> applications or services which constitute the principle of Net
> Neutrality contained in the sectorial norms, and in particular in the
> text of the article 24th H letter a) of the [aforementioned] law"
>
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