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Someone not sensitized by the net-neutrality debate would probably call a slow, spotty or censored internet connection still internet. But as frontiers are alre
by fwn 11y ago
Someone not sensitized by the net-neutrality debate would probably call a slow, spotty or censored internet connection still internet. But as frontiers are already pretty straight, qualitative differences in internet access already constitute a difference to what the net-neutrality side would be willing to accept as part of what can be called "internet".
This makes it funny that you name his wording "Orwellian" while subliminally reproducing this carefully crafted and politically loaded understanding of what qualifies as internet.
It in fact already is seeking political influence on a grammatical level.
- mikeash 11y agoFair, I accept that slow, spotty, and maybe even censored internet connections might qualify as "partial Internet connectivity." But that's not at all what we're talking about here, right? The service in question allows connecting to just two sites or something?
- vram22 11y agoNo, IIRC, not just two sites. But just a few sites, may be in the range of 10, which is not at all the same as all Internet sites, and letting the users decide which (of the many other useful sites) they can access.