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![Principled solutions?
• Don’t blame Wikimedia, blame mobiles
• They want exclusive in-country deals
• If Wikipedia + FBK want zero rating:
• Claim [1]
• time limited – say 3 months
• Claim [2]
• NEVER exclusive – FRAND terms like
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Gringo Net: Zero Rating in Brazil
The document discusses the debate around zero-rating practices and net neutrality, particularly in Latin America. It notes that Facebook and Google control over 60% of mobile network traffic in Latin America. While Facebook argues that zero-rating expands access, others argue it entrenches Facebook's gatekeeping power and dominance over the internet. The document advocates for time-limited and non-exclusive zero-rating as a compromise, and notes that several countries have banned the practice altogether due to net neutrality concerns.
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- 1. The Gringo Net: ZeroRating for Latinos? Chris Marsden Sussex FGV 8 June 2015
- 2. March 2015: SaoPaolo
- 3. UK government/Ofcom still opposedto net neutrality
- 4. Five Eyes Alliance:US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ
- 5. See Brazil? Notin 5Eyes
- 7. Dilma (in FBKhoodie) & Zuck (in a suit)
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- 11. Is Facebook theInternet? Brazilians think so?
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- 13. Sandvine CEO May2015 • In Latin America, • Facebook and Google: • Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, • YouTube, Google Play • control 60%+ of mobile network traffic o http://www.lightreading.com/video/ott/why-netflix-traffic-keeps-soaring/d/d- id/715984
- 14. How to beneutral • BBC 2006: • “Neutrality for us is not neutrality at all” • “Public service websites must argue for true neutrality”. • Ridiculous to suggest anything else is a remotely sustainable position: o https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/net- neutrality-towards-a-co-regulatory-solution/ch4-positive- discrimination-and-the-zettaflood
- 15. Wikimedia Foundation 2014 “We believein net neutrality in America” o “We have a complicated relationship to neutrality • "Partnering with telcos in the near term, • blurs the net neutrality line in those areas • It fulfils our overall mission, though, • which is providing free knowledge.” • http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the- switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship- with-net-neutrality/
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- 19. 2011: Brazil examplewhy zero rating needed
- 20. June 2011 ethnographicstudy: Sao Paolo + Porto Alegre
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- 22. Wikipedia Zero 59nations; 67 operators
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- 24. Zuck: "Some mayargue for an extreme definition of net neutrality…” • that it’s somehow wrong to offer any more services to support the unconnected, • but a reasonable definition of net neutrality is more inclusive. • Access equals opportunity. • Net neutrality should not prevent access.“ o Tone Deaf Zuckerberg Declares Opposition To Zero Rated Apps An 'Extremist' Position That Hurts The Poor from the new-AOL,-brought- to-you-by-Mother-Teresa dept, o Bode, Karl, Tech Dirt May 5th 2015 o https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150504/0834173088 5/tone-deaf-zuckerberg-declares-opposition-to-zero-rated-apps-extremist- position-that-hurts-poor.shtml
- 25. Claim 1: Internetaccess can be subsidised • “Nothing about opposing zero rating prevents access" • “nobody is stopping Facebook or Internet.org • funding discounted access • to the real Internet.” • So what is a reasonable position?
- 26. Claim 2: Competition& Dominance • “Zuckerberg's basically cementing his company's gatekeeper authority” • “over developing nations for generations to come • “under the bright banner of selfless altruism, • “then taking offense when told that • “these countries might just be better off with • “un-apertured, subsidized access to • the real Internet.”
- 27. Principled solutions? • Don’tblame Wikimedia, blame mobiles • They want exclusive in-country deals • If Wikipedia + FBK want zero rating: • Claim [1] • time limited – say 3 months • Claim [2] • NEVER exclusive – FRAND terms like specialized services
- 28. Net neutral nationsban Zero rating • Canada, • Netherlands, • Norway, • Slovenia, Estonia, • Japan, • Finland • Chile: http://historico.subtel.gob.cl/noticias/138- neutralidad-red/5311-ley-de-neutralidad-y-redes- sociales-gratis
- 29. Don’t break theInternet! • @christmarsden
Editor's Notes
- #2 I’m from the UK – specifically Liverpool. That’s Coutinho, Gerrard, and was Suarez. But I’m more of a Socrates man, together with Junior, Zico, Falcao et al. I’m too young to remember Garrincha though my dad saw him score in the 1966 World Cup in Liverpool. That’s me pointing at the German EU Commissioner who’s in charge of opposing net neutrality policy.