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This boils down to you defining neutrality as political. There is nothing faux about the neutrality of the internet. BGP peering is neutral and free. ISPs charg
by darawk 8y ago
This boils down to you defining neutrality as political. There is nothing faux about the neutrality of the internet. BGP peering is neutral and free. ISPs charge a fee for access, sure, but that's a choice made at the endpoints, on an individual basis.
What you are arguing is that neutrality is a political choice, and what I am arguing is that that is a bad definition of politics.
- wpietri 8y agoNo, it's you defining a political viewpoint as neutral. There are many possible notions of what "neutral" means. That you pick a specific, socially determined definition and treat it as the only possible one is a political action.
- darawk 8y agoErm, that's what I said? We're arguing definitions, not facts. You are defining neutrality as a political position. I am defining it as non-political. My point is that your definition is bad, because it is a non-definition. If neutrality is political, then 'political' is a word without a meaning, because it applies to any and all possible things.