[IRPCoalition] Open letter to Zuckerberg re: Internet.org

Tue May 12 15:04:07 EEST 2015

Dear Marianne and all,

I read with interest what the letter says and I do share many of your concerns. The questions I ponder is how are you disseminating this position around the global internet to create the pressure needed to encourage / force Facebook to change or modify its plans? is Facebook paying attention? Do they care?

Best

Khaled Fattal 

From: IRP [mailto:irp-bounces at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org] On Behalf Of Marianne Franklin
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:59 AM
To: irp at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org
Subject: [IRPCoalition] Open letter to Zuckerberg re: Internet.org

Dear IRP'ers

See below, and attached an open letter by Access that is addressed to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook about their internet.org project and its implications for net neutrality, FoE, and other rights and freedoms contained in the IRPC Charter, and subsequent declarations. 

As internet rights and principles continue to be chipped away at from all directions, this letter is timely.

best
MF

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Josh Levy <josh at accessnow.org> wrote:

Hi all - we've had some great input from a number of people over the last few days, and we've incorporated it all into (yet another) draft of our open letter to Mark Zuckerberg on zero rating, attached. 

As you'll see, the substance is mostly unchanged. Here's what we did: 

*	Moved some text around to make it flow better
*	Added some language about "equality of opportunity" the problems of a two-tiered Internet 
*	Fixed a few typos and problems of clarity 

We'd like folks to consider this current text as final minus any glaring problems. To allow for more groups to sign (including many in India, who are just now seeing the final text) we're now closing this up tomorrow (Tuesday) at COB EST. 

Please review the letter and let me know if you can sign. If your organization has already signed and is uncomfortable with any changes, please let me know. 

Once this is live, I encourage you to publicize it through social media and by blog, and to articulate your reason for getting behind the language - which will also give you an opportunity to voice criticisms not included in the letter. 

Current list of signers below:  

Access

Global

Popular Resistance

US

RootsAction.org <https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2FRootsAction.org> 

US

Future of Music Coalition

US

OpenMedia

Canada

The Media Consortium

US

Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)

Canada

Bits of Freedom

Netherlands

Initiative für Netzfreiheit

Austria

IT-Pol Denmark

Denmark

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EU

ColorofChange.org <https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2FColorofChange.org> 

US

xnet

Spain

The Heliopolis Institute

Egypt

Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum

Zimbabwe

Digital Rights Foundation 

Pakistan

Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet

South Korea

Movimento Mega

Brazil

Instituto Bem Estar Brasil

Brazil

Vrijschrift

Netherlands

Instituto Beta para Internet e Democracia - IBIDEM

Brazil

The Agency League of Musicians

US

Digitale Gesellschaft

Germany

Integrating Livelihoods through Communication Information Technology for Africa

Uganda

Protege Qv 

Cameroon

Fundacion Karisma

Colombia

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